All Things Considered

NPRMarshall Islanders

  • August 12, 2001, 12:00 AM

Chickens are the reason people are leaving the tropical paradise of the Marshall Islands and moving to Northwest Arkansas. Missy Shelton of member station K-S-M-U reports on the more than 6,000 Marshallese people who've moved to Springdale, Arkansas to pluck chickens for the Tyson Chicken plant.

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