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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...
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...
There is no publicly cited dataset in the provided reporting that gives a statewide count of “natural” deaths specifically among people of Somali origin in from 2020 to the present; publishes detailed...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
records through a combination of county medical examiners/coroners (ME/C) investigations, state vital records maintained by the , and specialized surveillance systems that merge those sources; MDH pub...
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...
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 ...
Older Somali Minnesotans face layered challenges in long‑term care including language and cultural barriers, trauma‑related mental health needs, and health conditions tied to acculturation and social ...
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...
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...
When ’s official governor pages return “Verifying your browser” or other verification errors, the most direct fallback is archived copies of the governor’s press releases in ; the governor newsroom an...
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 ...
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 ...
’s racial and ethnic mortality picture tracks some —people of color suffered higher COVID-era and excess mortality overall—but it diverges in important ways: the principal split in Minnesota has been ...
Researchers seeking ethnicity- or ancestry-specific mortality data from the Department of Health (MDH) should first exhaust the agency’s public dashboards and downloadable mortality tables, then pursu...