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Available reporting does not show a reliable national percentage of Somali Americans on welfare; advocates say “most Somalis are not on welfare” , while some critics point to concentrated poverty and ...
Nick Shirley, a 23‑year‑old YouTuber who styles himself an independent journalist, posted a viral video in late December 2025 alleging that Somali‑run daycare centers in Minnesota had been paid millio...
Yes: federal and state prosecutions connected to the broader Minnesota social-aid and Feeding Our Future scandals have produced dozens of convictions, including the conviction of Aimee Bock, the gover...
Investigations and reporting over the last decade found no criminal charges against Rep. Ilhan Omar for allegedly marrying a brother; the “married her brother” allegation originated during her 2016 Mi...
Somali Americans show mixed employment and poverty signals: survey-era U.S. figures report roughly 58% employment for working‑age Somali Americans and 5.1% self‑employment nationally (62% and 5.9% in ...
Ilhan Omar has publicly responded to recent attacks and policy moves targeting Somali migrants and herself, including a direct reply on X after President Trump called her and Somali Americans “garbage...
Multiple reports and viral charts have claimed that Somali Americans enroll in SNAP at very high rates—figures floated include about 42% nationally and as high as 54% in some writeups—but these number...
The child-care fraud cases in Minnesota have been prosecuted in waves over the last decade rather than in a single, discrete trial: early daycare fraud prosecutions trace back to at least 2015, multip...
A cascade of federal indictments and viral videos has focused national attention on alleged fraud in Minnesota’s social programs, much of it tied to Somali-American providers; federal prosecutors have...
Local reporting and post‑election surveys indicate a measurable shift of Somali‑American voters toward Republicans in 2024 compared with 2016 and 2020: polls show Somali support for the Democratic tic...
There is no single, definitive source in the provided reporting that gives a current, nationwide breakout of employment rates for Somali Americans by both age and gender. Available sources cite older ...
Employment among Somali Americans appears to have risen since 2010, with working‑age employment and labor‑force participation estimates moving from the roughly mid‑40s/50s in localized 2010 snapshots ...
Available sources do not provide county-level 2025 employment rates specifically for Somali Americans in Minnesota; statewide estimates and broader labor statistics are available instead. Minnesota’s ...
Somali-American voter turnout in 2024 was highest and best-documented in Minnesota, where a historically engaged community continued to participate robustly but showed notable shifts in partisan prefe...
Second‑generation Somali Americans in Minnesota show clear signs of upward mobility relative to their parents: a growing share are U.S.‑born, education levels and workforce participation have risen, a...
Minnesota’s Somali community leaders and advocacy groups have responded to the fraud investigations with a mix of condemnation of criminality, legal pushback to protect due process and civil-rights co...
Somali-Americans were explicitly targeted by stepped-up immigration enforcement during the Trump presidency’s second term: the administration ended Temporary Protected Status for Somalis and deployed ...
Somali Americans’ access to SNAP is impeded by a tangle of policy shifts, aggressive fraud investigations and data-sharing demands, and a swirl of disinformation and political targeting that together ...
High rates of welfare receipt among many Somali American households are driven less by cultural pathology than by a confluence of socioeconomic factors: refugee arrival conditions, limited English and...
Second‑generation Somali Americans in Minnesota show markedly better educational and economic outcomes than their refugee‑parent generation, with many entering college and professional fields, yet pop...