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The fact-check mentions the high welfare participation rates among refugee groups, particularly Somalis in Minnesota.
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...
Somali refugee resettlement to Minnesota began in earnest in the early 1990s after Somalia’s civil war, grew rapidly through the 1990s and 2000s into the largest concentration of Somalis outside Afric...
Somali households in Minnesota form a sizable, relatively recent immigrant community characterized by larger-than-average household size, high rates of welfare receipt, lower median household income, ...
National household surveys give conflicting but explainable portraits: the American Community Survey (ACS) and IPUMS analysis yield modest, population‑weighted welfare rates for immigrants (around 20–...