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Refugee Cash Assistance and Refugee Medical Assistance for people with qualifying refugee/asylee or related statuses.
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...
Available public sources do not publish a simple ranked list of Minnesota counties showing the largest gaps in public‑assistance receipt between specific immigrant groups (for example, Somali vs.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...
’s resettlement agencies, backed by a state Resettlement Programs Office, have been pivotal in channeling refugees into particular counties and cities by providing services, managing federal funds and...
New York’s safety net for people without lawful immigration status is a patchwork: state rules generally bar undocumented adults from standard Cash Assistance, but carve-outs, emergency benefits and l...
Between 2015 and 2024, Minnesota’s formal refugee‑assistance framework — notably Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and related Refugee Employment and Social Services — remained a primary pathway for newly...