Tiny City East Of St. Paul Tops Metro Poverty List
LANDFALL, Minn. (AP) – A mobile home park of about 700 residents incorporated as a city is among Minnesota’s poorest communities. More than a quarter of the residents in Landfall live in poverty, which...
View ArticleMinnesota County Officials Cope With Poverty
WINONA, Minn. (AP) — Craig Brooks knew it was time to retire, but he couldn’t make the decision without some soul searching. Giving up his work was hard, considering the recession. More residents than...
View ArticleNew Census Data Show Poverty In NW Minn. Counties
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — New census data show nearly half of the state’s 10 most impoverished counties are in northwestern Minnesota, where jobs that can support families can be hard to find. Minnesota...
View ArticleMinnesota 2nd In Kids’ Health, Nation Doing Worse
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – For the fourth year in a row, a new national report ranks Minnesota children second in the nation for health and well being. The study, done annually by the Annie E. Casey...
View ArticlePoverty On The Rise In Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — U.S. Census Bureau numbers show a sharp rise in poverty in Minnesota. According to the reports, from 2007 to 2008, the poverty level stood at 9.6 percent. From 2009 to 2010, that...
View ArticleGood Question: Why Is The Poverty Line Just $11,000?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — More Americans than ever before are living below the poverty line, and 544,000 Minnesotans are there too. But how is the poverty line determined? “It was determined by the money a...
View ArticleCensus: Poverty Ticks Up In Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The poverty rate inched up in Minnesota last year while incomes fell, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The state’s poverty rate...
View ArticleLocal Organization Helps Families In Poverty Start Fresh
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One Minneapolis organization provides free meals to families in need — and a chance to start over. “This is not easy, being homeless,” said Artis Stevenson. Times have been tough...
View ArticleAnoka-Hennepin Schools Offer Food Shelves For Hungry
ANOKA, Minn. (WCCO) – They are not just classrooms, computer labs and gymnasiums. Many Minnesota high schools now have food shelves. The need is especially great in Twin Cities suburbs, including...
View ArticleFeds Investigate Minnesota’s Handling Of Medicaid
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The federal government is investigating how Minnesota administers Medicaid health coverage for poor people, but few details are available on the nature of the inquiry. Department...
View ArticleMound Church Helps Low-Income Families Grow Food
MOUND, Minn. (WCCO) — A newspaper advertisment called Tami Clark Pehrson to Mound’s Bethel United Methodist church, but she unexpectedly found nourishment outside, among the rows of lettuce, onions...
View ArticleHeat Impacts Twin Cities Homeless
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) –The heat wave is impacting Minnesota’s homeless population. Shelters across the Twin Cities are at full capacity with people looking to cool off. “We haven’t had so many people here...
View ArticleCensus Report Shows More Children Living In Poverty
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — According to numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census, the percentage of children living in poverty in Minnesota continues to grow. Now 80,000 more children are living in...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney Denigrates 47% Not Paying Taxes As He Uses Loopholes Trying...
Last May, Mitt Romney talked to a room full of wealthy donors about the leeches on the American system. The video has just surfaced and it has put Mitt Romney further on the defensive. Romney...
View ArticleSD Leads Nation In Native American Poverty Rate
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota leads the nation in the percentage of Native Americans living below the poverty line, and more than half of the Native Americans in the state’s second largest city...
View ArticleWINGs’ Flight Of Fashion Helps Women Beat Poverty
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – WINGs stands for Women Investing in the Next Generation, and the group helps women establish financial stability to overcome poverty. Their Flight of Fashion fundraiser is this...
View ArticleGrowth Of Suburban MN Poverty Among Highest In Nation
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Twin Cities suburbs feature plenty of spacious homes and luxury cars, but they’re also seeing a big increase in poverty. In fact, a new study says the growth in the poverty rate...
View ArticleHenn. Co. Teen Birth Rate In Decline
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – For the fifth consecutive year, the number of teenagers who gave birth in Hennepin County has decreased. According to Hennepin County officials, the number of teen births in 2007...
View ArticleArt Therapy An Aesthetic Outlet For At-Risk Kids
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Poverty, homeless and abuse are problems — and art is one of the solutions. At least in one program that’s finding a way to give at-risk kids a new way to express themselves, and...
View ArticleShe Fed, Clothed The Homeless & Ended Up Getting Robbed
(credit: CBS) ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – Nicki Coombs is committed to helping the poor as she regularly makes sandwiches for those outside the Dorothy Day Center in St. Paul. play pause She Fed, Clothed...
View ArticleUrban Ventures: Using Music To Keep Kids In School
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — We all know keeping kids in school is important, but sometimes you need to get creative to connect with them. Urban Ventures has been helping kids break the cycle of poverty for...
View ArticleCensus: Iowa Has Lowest Poverty Rate In Nation
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new Census report shows that Iowa and several other Midwest and Plains states have the lowest poverty rates when cost of living is factored into the calculation. The report...
View ArticleRegardless Of Snow, The Sleep Out Begins And Aims To Raise $2M
PLYMOUTH, Minn. (WCCO) – While many Minnesotan’s are planning festive holiday gatherings, some don’t even know where they are sleeping any given night. Beginning this weekend, The Sleep Out has...
View ArticleStudy: MN Schools Toss Lunches When Students Can’t Pay
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The news story provoked national outrage as school children in Utah had their lunches tossed in the garbage because they didn’t have enough money to pay for them. But it turns out...
View ArticleStudy: Wealthy & Impoverished Get Different Types Of Cancer
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A new study shows the level of poverty or wealth in an area may affect the types of cancers people get. Researchers looked at three million tumors diagnosed over a four-year...
View ArticleMovie Blog: ‘Rich Hill’ Review
“God has to be busy with everyone else” — Those are the heartbreaking words said by one of the three boys whose lives filmmakers Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo follow in Rich Hill, a...
View ArticleFast Food Workers Protest Wages At Mpls. McDonald’s
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Fast food workers and union supporters briefly took over a Minneapolis McDonald’s restaurant Thursday. It was part of a nationwide protest in 150 cities by fast food workers...
View ArticleSomali Group Pushes For Non-Pork Food Shelf
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Food shelves can be a life line for people dealing with poverty and hunger. But many in the Somali-American community say finding a food shelf that caters to their religious...
View ArticleCensus: More Than 175K MN Children Live In Poverty
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal how many children in Minnesota are living in poverty. Fourteen percent of kids in the state of Minnesota lived in poverty...
View ArticleReport Says Future Of Low Paid Workers Is Bleak
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) –Despite the recent success in raising Minnesota’s minimum wage, a new report paints a bleak outlook for the state’s lowest paid workers. The worker rights groups, Working...
View ArticleFaith Leaders At Capitol To Urge Help For Poor, People Of Color
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A multi-racial, multi-denominational group of clergy gathered at the State Capitol Thursday. They announced their commitment to engage Minnesota’s elected leaders, and promote...
View ArticleReport Suggests Minnesota Among Top States For Child Welfare
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/WCCO) — A new report applauds Minnesota as the best state for child welfare, but that found overall more U.S. children are living in poverty than before the Great Recession belies...
View ArticleCensus Data Shows MN Black Households’ Income Plummeting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New U.S. Census numbers out Thursday suggest that racial disparities in Minnesota are growing. The median income for black households dropped nearly 15 percent — or about $4,500 in...
View ArticleSharing & Caring Hands’ Copeland Meets With Pope Francis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minneapolis woman who serves the poor and homeless in the Twin Cities got a face-to-face meeting with Pope Francis Thursday in Washington, D.C. Mary Jo Copeland, founder of...
View ArticleIs Gentrification A Problem In The Twin Cities? Not How You’d Think, Study Says
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — For many poor, urban residents of American cities, a crisis is looming — gentrification. It’s what happens when wealthier residents start moving into poorer neighborhoods. The...
View ArticleRacial Poverty Gap Persists In Minnesota, Despite Progress
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Black residents in Minnesota are seeing signs of economic progress, but a wide poverty gap remains. State Demographer Susan Brower tells Minnesota Public Radio that U.S. Census...
View ArticleJudge Halts Plan For Medicaid Work Requirement
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s drive to wean poor people from government benefits by making them work has been slowed by a federal judge framing a fundamental question: Are poverty...
View ArticleWorst Place To Live In Minnesota? 24/7 Wall Street Says St. Cloud
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — 24/7 Wall Street says the worst place to live in Minnesota is St. Cloud. The website says it looked at 11 Minnesota cities and found that St. Cloud had the highest poverty rate and...
View ArticleJob Growth Is Found To Be No Cure For A Community’s Poverty
BALTIMORE (AP) — A healthy dose of job growth has long been seen as a likely cure for poverty. But new research suggests that poor Americans are frequently left behind even when their cities or...
View ArticleMore Poor In Twin Cities Suburbs
New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show poverty and unemployment increased significantly in many Twin Cities suburbs last year. Population experts say they’re struck by number of “new poor” in...
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