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One of the largest immigration crackdowns under the Obama administration to date took place in the Twin Cities last month, when 1,200 undocumented janitors were fired from their jobs, according to immigration lawyers.
(11/09/2009)
Somali immigrants face many challenges adjusting to life in America. As part of our Youth Radio Series, Sadiya Mohamed describes her search for home in America.
(11/06/2009)
The Obama Administration's new director of Citizenship and Immigration Services was in the Twin Cities today as part of a listening tour.
(10/29/2009)
Letters chronicling a failed attempt to stage patriotic singalongs late in World War I provide a window into the devastation of the 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak in Minnesota.
(10/12/2009)
The number of Hmong women pursuing college is growing in Minnesota. But a college education can be hard won in families that traditionally encourage daughters to marry young and raise families.
(09/24/2009)
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and describe how it shaped them as adults.
(08/26/2009)
I looked around my book group one night and realized we were almost all children of the 1970s divorce boom.
(08/26/2009)
It felt like the sky was falling when my parents gathered my little brother and me in the living room and told us they were separating.
(08/26/2009)
One big difference between 1979 and today is that there are a lot more kids whose families aren't the traditional nuclear family, with mom and dad and the kids. And lots of people are telling them it's OK.
(08/26/2009)
Minnesota requires parents who disagree on custody to attend co-parenting classes. Hennepin County used to require a three-hour session for kids who were stuck in the middle.
(08/26/2009)
One girl from divorce class lets us catch up on her life. She and her brother have gained a stepmom, a stepbrother, and now, a half-brother who's a year and half old.
(08/26/2009)
America's divorce rate hit a peak in 1979. Back then, no one really knew how divorce would affect children. Three decades later, the adult children of divorce look back.
(08/26/2009)
In 1979, 20 middle-schoolers at the Fayerweather Street School, a private school in Cambridge, Mass., wrote "The Kids' Book of Divorce: By, For & About Kids," as a class project.
(08/26/2009)
It's pretty overwhelming for a divorced kid to hear your parents taking their wedding vows. Their voices sound so young and it's such an idealistic moment.
(08/26/2009)
Hennepin County used to require children of divorcing parents to attend a three-hour class, to help them understand the changes they were experiencing in their families. We visit one of those classes.
(08/25/2009)
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