One answer: As eager as many Americans are to watch “The Big Short” and tell themselves that the Great Recession is something that has come and gone away, its effects are still strongly felt in Black communities.
The estimated annual income needed to afford the median home in the United States rose a whopping $28,000 — from $79,600 to $107,600.
While Northern Metals was operating, the zip code of that area, 55411, had the highest rate of asthma hospitalizations in the state, according to the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has a budget north of $120 million and more than 800 employees.
Park board members who supported encampments irked and angered residents. Many voters told candidates leading up to last fall’s election that housing is not the board’s responsibility.
Polling taken before the ruling and after the ruling does suggest voters are more likely to change their minds about how to vote now that the ruling is official and not speculative.
Because of the threats to abortion rights in many states, a new University of California study determined more than a quarter of abortion clinics in the nation would shut down after Roe is struck.
With all 201 seats in the Legislature and all four constitutional offices on the ballot, much of the campaign rhetoric related to this session will be on the things one side wanted to pass but the other side blocked.
Sometimes Minnesota entities are looking for grants and other federal monies. Sometimes they are trying to block or reverse policy changes.
Following the nationwide protests and demands for change that resulted from the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Daunte Wright and more, calls came to create a plan to reduce police violence.
The state will give grants up to $15,000 per eligible farmer, which the person has to match.
But to move Minnesota’s primary to February, Ken Martin and his counterpart at the Minnesota Republican Party, David Hann, would have to agree to a date change.
“Falling for a scam” is taboo among many immigrant communities. For many, a sense of shame lingers far after being scammed, which has a large mental health toll.
The cost of everything from bread and cakes to noodles and pasta has risen in recent months as wheat prices soared on world commodity market – and prices are expected to continue to climb.
Among 164 HCAPE union members, Erickson estimated that only nine members are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), and 38 members are nonmale.
With voters approving the new system of governance last fall, Frey has proposed further plans to restructure how city government operates.
Earmarks were banned in 2011, victims of a series of scandals and an anti-spending movement fueled by the Tea Party, which considered these projects wasteful “pork.”
Twin Cities shelters saw a significant drop in the number of people accessing their services when pandemic aid set in. But those same shelters have also started seeing an uptick again.
The ripple effects of gun violence, include the increase of toxic stress on children, which changes the trajectory of development in the brain.
The order would also direct all federal law enforcement agencies to revise use-of-force policies and ban chokeholds unless deadly force is authorized.
