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Minnesota hosts by far the largest Somali community in the United States—estimates in recent reporting put the state’s Somali population between roughly 64,000 and 107,000, with multiple outlets citin...
Available public sources do not provide an annual, year‑by‑year count of Somali immigrants and refugees moving to Minnesota since 2005; federal and state reports give multi‑year aggregates and populat...
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...
Minnesota contains the largest Somali population in the United States, with state-level estimates ranging from roughly 61,000 to more than 107,000 people of Somali descent; most sources point to heavy...
The most reliable public data show that 6,320 refugees from Somalia were resettled in Minnesota during Barack Obama’s two presidential terms (Jan. 2009–Jan. 2017), while roughly 54,000 Somali refugees...
Between 2015 and 2025, the largest concentrations of Somali refugees in the United States were concentrated in a handful of states long known as Somali hubs—most prominently Minnesota and New York, wi...
Two parallel threads of official reporting and news coverage show that Minnesota received at least tens of thousands of Somali refugees after 1990 — administrative tallies put total Somali refugee arr...
Minnesota’s refugee resettlement funding is a mix of federal per-capita payments to local resettlement agencies and federal block grants and refugee-specific service dollars administered through the s...
Somali refugee arrivals to Minnesota began in the early 1990s and grew in waves; statewide data say more than 26,000 Somali refugees settled in Minnesota since 1993 and national arrivals from Somalia ...
Between 2010 and the mid‑2020s Minnesota’s Somali community remained one of the youngest population groups in the state, with multiple reports finding roughly half (or more) of Somali Minnesotans unde...
Human and animal studies link BPA — a component of some polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins — to endocrine disruption, reproductive effects, metabolic changes (obesity, diabetes), cardiovascular p...
Minnesota’s immigrant populations arrive with a complex mix of coverage, need and access that produces different patterns of health spending than native-born residents: immigrants overall have higher ...
State and federal agencies, university centers and nonprofit data projects publish race- and ethnicity‑disaggregated data on public‑benefit use in Minnesota; key entry points include Minnesota Departm...
Reliable data on public-assistance use in Minnesota exists but is spread across federal, state, and non‑profit sources; the strongest sources that disaggregate by race, nativity, or country of origin ...
Estimates of Minnesotans of Somali descent vary widely: contemporary local and national reporting cites figures from roughly 61,000 to more than 107,000 people, with several outlets and datasets ident...
Freezing stops bacterial growth so a raw turkey breast stored constantly at 0°F (-18°C) or lower is safe to eat “indefinitely,” though many food-safety and culinary sources recommend consuming large f...
A clear map of reliable sources exists for measuring Somali socio-economic outcomes in Minnesota: federal surveys (especially the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey), state compilations an...
A Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis of ten years of American Community Survey data reports that roughly 73 percent of Somali-headed households in Minnesota include at least one Medicaid en...
Faith-based resettlement organizations in Minnesota — including Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Service, Arrive Ministries and other Volags — have worked alongside federal and state agencies, loca...
Between 2010 and 2020, the concentrated resettlement and secondary migration of Somali refugees reshaped parts of Minneapolis’ labor market, neighborhood economy and demand for social services, produc...