Editing Garden City, Kansas (section)

===20th century===
[[File:Kansas - Garden City through Guinnel - NARA - 23940107 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Garden City in 1943]]
[[File:Garden-city-water-tower.jpg|thumb|Garden City Water Tower (2019)]]
In the 1970s, Garden City's [[city council]] allowed the building of a meatpacking plant. This invigorated the economy. New residents arrived, but even with population growth the unemployment rate was only about 3% in 2017. Many of the new arrivals were immigrants from outside the United States (Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, and other places, particularly Mexico and Latin America), such that over 48% of the 2010 population was Hispanic,<ref name="wwwcensusgov"/> and less than 40% of the population was non-Hispanic white.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/516016940/a-thriving-rural-towns-winning-formula-faces-new-threats-under-trump-administrat |title=A Thriving Rural Town's Winning Formula Faces New Threats Under Trump Administration [transcript] |author=Frank Morris |date=February 19, 2017 |work=Weekend Edition |publisher=National Public Radio |access-date=February 21, 2017}}</ref>