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Refugee family arrivals in the 1990s and high fertility in early settlement years contributed to a young population.
Minnesota hosts the largest Somali community in the United States, concentrated in the Twin Cities, but estimates of its size vary widely across sources — from roughly 43,000 Somalia-born residents to...
Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District is a compact, heavily urban district centered on the city of Minneapolis that combines pronounced racial and linguistic diversity with stark neighborhood‑level i...
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...
Claims about Somali welfare participation have become a flashpoint, but the data are inconsistent and often regional: the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported that 27% of Somali immigrant hou...
’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...
Minnesota’s reception-and-placement funds are administered through a mix of state oversight and locally contracted resettlement agencies: the Department of Human Services (DHS) distributes federal dol...
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) identifies "Somali-headed" or "Somali immigrant" households in its Minnesota welfare analysis by using ten years of American Community Survey (ACS) data (2014–...
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...
Between 2010 and 2025 Minnesota’s Somali population remained concentrated in the Twin Cities metro and surrounding counties, expanding markedly in the 1990s–2000s and continuing to grow into the 2010s...