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The 2025 HHS poverty guidelines set the annual Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for the 48 contiguous states at $15,650 for a single-person household and $54,150 for an eight-person household, with per‑per...
Somali immigrants in Minnesota access mainstream federal and state safety-net programs—like SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid and various state-funded social services—through the same enrollment systems us...
Analyses across news outlets and research groups show that on balance wealthier, Democratic-leaning “blue” states tend to send more federal tax dollars to Washington than they receive back in programm...
Walmart is consistently identified as one of the largest private-sector employers whose workforce includes substantial numbers of , but there is no single, up-to-date national tally of how many Walmar...
Estimates vary sharply depending on how “Somali” and “welfare” are defined: a Minnesota state demographer’s reading of the Census’s 2019–2023 American Community Survey puts roughly 8% (range 6.3%–10.1...
Snapchat’s “My Eyes Only” is presented as an encrypted, passcode‑protected vault for Snaps moved from Memories and claims that content there is protected even if a device is stolen . However, Snapchat...
Available sources do not provide a direct count of how many Somali Minnesotans receive SNAP, Medicaid, or TANF benefits or the share of the Somali community those counts represent; reporting instead f...
’s is a passcode‑protected vault inside Memories that Snapchat says keeps saved Snaps encrypted and requires a separate PIN to view content , but maximizing protection depends on device‑level and acco...
A CyberTip submitted by Snapchat to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) can and often does trigger law enforcement investigations that have led to arrests, but submissi...
The core claim under scrutiny is whether undocumented immigrants receive taxpayer-funded benefits; available reporting confirms , but the scale, eligibility rules, and political framing vary widely ac...
Moving an image from a phone’s camera roll into ’s does put that file behind an extra, passcode-protected inside the Snapchat app, but it is not an absolute guarantee of invisibility or immunity from ...
cloud-stored Memories can be produced to when Snap receives valid legal process and the data still exists in Snap’s backups, while content placed in “My Eyes Only” is in a way Snapchat says it cannot ...
Snapchat’s public materials repeatedly state that Snaps and Chats are private and delete by default and that content placed in “My Eyes Only” is encrypted so “not even us” can view it , while their br...
’s "" is designed to accept photos and videos directly from the through the Memories interface, so when a user swipes up to Memories, opens Camera Roll, selects an image and chooses "Hide" (or "Move t...
Snapchat clearly states it uses automated tools and human review to moderate public content surfaces like Spotlight, Public Stories and Discover, and it publishes transparency and policy materials abo...
Platforms like Snapchat are legally required and contractually committed to escalate suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), but...
’s own support page explains how to use and that it’s a area inside , but it does not explicitly state in the provided documentation whether My Eyes Only items are stored only on the device (client‑si...
Snapchat’s parent company reports that its automated detection and reporting systems generated roughly 690,000 CyberTip submissions to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCME...
The available sources show the official HHS poverty guidelines were updated for 2025 and published in the Federal Register; the 2025 guideline for a single person in the contiguous 48 states is $15,65...
Moving a photo from the phone’s into ’s is a two-step process: import the picture into , then hide it into My Eyes Only using the lock/hide controls — My Eyes Only only accepts items stored in Memorie...