Jobs program tries to discourage immigration to U.S. / Many rural towns in Mexico have seen populations dwindle

“Arroyo, who is in her late 40s, says that even though she has children and siblings in the United States, she wants to remain in this rural village in the central state of Michoacan, where she earns about $150 a month. Arroyo owes her job to “Three for One,” a program that covers 26 Mexican states and that has funded more than 500,000 projects nationwide in an attempt to stem the wave of migration that has turned many rural Mexican towns into ghost towns.

The initiative requires federal, state and municipal governments to match donations or investments made by Mexican migrants in the United States to fund development and infrastructure projects in Mexico.”

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