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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 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...
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...
The user’s phrasing conflates a city with a state; the relevant geography is (the state) and (the city). Minnesota is home to roughly half a million foreign‑born residents—estimates range from about 4...
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...
Reliable estimates vary by definition and dataset, but recent reporting shows that a large share of and individuals in use at least one means‑tested program: separate sources report roughly 54% of Som...
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 $...
’s immigrant population — defined as foreign‑born residents and encompassing naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, students, temporary visa holders and people without authorizati...
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...
today is home to roughly 470–475 thousand foreign‑born residents—about 8–8.5% of the state’s population—making immigrants a substantial but not majority share of the state . Estimates of the unauthori...
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 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...