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Available sources show Somali Minnesotans have, historically, had higher poverty and lower labor-force participation than Minnesota overall — reports cite poverty rates as high as 55–58% in some analy...
Available sources disagree widely on counts but consistently report that Minnesota hosts the largest Somali community in the United States; recent estimates cited range from "more than 32,000" (Census...
State and local sources show Somali Minnesotans’ employment and labor-market outcomes improved from the low points after the Great Recession into the 2010s — with reports citing employment rates aroun...
Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive percentage of Minnesota’s Somali immigrants who are on any type of public assistance. Multiple recent news accounts note that many Somalis arr...
Somali Minnesotans are a large, long-established community concentrated in the Twin Cities that local officials and analysts say contribute substantially through work, entrepreneurship and consumer ac...
Somali workers in Minnesota are concentrated in a handful of sectors: home health care and health services, food and animal food manufacturing (including meatpacking), transportation/warehousing, reta...
Available reporting shows wide, divergent estimates for unemployment among Minnesota’s Somali-born and Somali-American residents: older local reporting and state advocacy documents have cited figures ...
Media outlets and researchers disagree sharply about Somali Minnesotans’ net economic role: local reporting cites a Concordia economist estimating Somali annual income at “at least $500 million” and $...
Somali adults in Minnesota have substantially lower postsecondary attainment — about 19.4% of adults age 25–44 hold an associate degree or higher versus the statewide goal of 70% and lower than many o...
Somali Minnesotans have experienced higher unemployment and larger shares out of the labor force than many other immigrant groups in Minnesota over the last decade, with multiple sources citing elevat...
Available data show Minnesota collects program-level participation and performance measures for immigrant groups (including Somali) in public programs like MFIP and Food Support, but public reporting ...
Data in recent reporting and background profiles show Minnesota hosts by far the largest Somali diaspora in the U.S.—estimates range from roughly 61,000 (ACS-derived profiles) to about 80,000–107,000 ...
Available sources show a large employment gap by gender within Minnesota’s Somali community in older census-era data — for example a 2000 Minneapolis snapshot reporting 65% of Somali men employed vers...
Minnesota’s Somali community arrived mostly as refugees in the 1990s with high poverty, limited credential transferability, and concentrated low-wage employment; over three decades those indicators ha...
Welfare enrollment among Somalis in Minnesota shifted between 2015 and 2024 under the influence of changing demographics, refugee resettlement and state refugee-support programs, rising workforce part...
KSTP and other local outlets report an estimate that Somali Minnesotans generate about $500 million in annual income and pay roughly $67 million in state and local taxes, figures attributed to economi...
Somali Minnesotans are concentrated in the Twin Cities and number roughly 80,000 in the state, where official and journalistic accounts show both long‑standing economic participation and persistent ga...
Minnesota’s Somali population is now a mix of U.S.-born and foreign-born residents: multiple news outlets cite that roughly 57–58% of Somalis in Minnesota were born in the United States, while foreign...
Somali immigrants in major U.S. cities show a mixed socioeconomic picture: sizable concentrations (largest in Minnesota) with strong naturalization and citizenship rates coexist with persistent povert...
Available reporting documents concentrated political attention and federal enforcement plans focused on Minnesota’s Somali community, which is concentrated in the Twin Cities metro and numbers tens of...