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The best available 2025 city-level estimates point to Minneapolis as by far the largest concentration of Somalia-born residents in Minnesota, followed at a distance by St. Paul and St. Cloud; smaller ...
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...
Available public sources do not publish a simple ranked list of Minnesota counties showing the largest gaps in public‑assistance receipt between specific immigrant groups (for example, Somali vs. Hmon...
Available public reporting and state data portals show Minnesota has the nation’s largest Somali community (roughly 80–107,000 people in recent reporting) and that Minnesota tracks immigrant enrollmen...
Available reporting shows Somali Minnesotans arrived overwhelmingly as refugees in the 1990s and 2000s and initially had higher rates of poverty and lower workforce participation than Minnesota’s over...
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 ...
Available reporting and research show Minnesota data on SNAP participation by immigrant status and some immigrant groups, but no single source in the provided set supplies a complete, decade‑long time...
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...
Available sources do not report a named “scheme” nor list which Minneapolis–Saint Paul neighborhoods had the highest number of victims in any scheme; the documents returned are general neighborhood, c...