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Poverty

• Food shelf visits up sharply in Minnesota
  The number of visits to food shelves is up by two-thirds in Minnesota compared to two years ago, and in the Twin Cities, the number is almost doubled. Many of those new visitors used to be donors.December 13, 2010
• Food shelf use rises significantly in Minnesota
  Numbers from the advocacy group Hunger Solutions show visits to emergency food shelves are up about 11 percent in the first part of this year, over the same period last year.December 13, 2010
• Minn. man takes 'food stamp challenge'
  As Minnesotans head to grocery stores to buy their Thanksgiving turkeys, stuffing, and cranberry sauce, a record number will be paying for their holiday meals using food stamps. A Minneapolis man hopes to raise awareness of "food insecurity" by living for a week on the amount of money he'd get if he were receiving government food support.November 23, 2010
• Raising awareness about food assistance
  To raise awareness about the issue of food insecurity, this week a Minneapolis man is living on the amount of money an individual receives in what used to be known as food stamps.November 23, 2010
• St. Paul launches Promise Neighborhood to improve student performance
  St. Paul community leaders are launching a new education experiment called a Promise Neighborhood, which is designed to help children make it to college. The effort targets 250 blocks with overlapping services they hope will promote educational success.November 18, 2010
• Demand is up, volunteers are down, for holiday charity
  Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis is reporting a shortage of volunteers for the upcoming holiday season.November 11, 2010
• From segregation to disintegration
  Writer Eugene Robinson grew up in a segregated world, and as a writer for the Washington Post he has witnessed the evolution of the black community in the years since the Civil Rights movement. But he argues that despite integration, the progress made by many black Americans has not been shared by all, and that the problems of poor blacks are more intractable than ever.Midmorning, November 9, 2010
• Feds working on public housing and rental assistance reform
  The federal government is working on a proposal to reform the country's public housing and rental assistance programs.November 8, 2010
• Demand at rural food shelves keeps rising
  Economists say the recession is technically over, but there are still plenty of signs of struggle in rural Minnesota. You need only look at Itasca County, where more families are seeking help from food shelves and social service agencies.October 21, 2010
• Overflowing homeless shelters forced to turn away families
  Dozens of families have been turned away as the growing numbers of homeless means emergency family shelters in the Twin Cities are full to overflowing most nights, and the lack of space has caused one family to take desperate action.October 13, 2010
• Child poverty grows in Minnesota
  The Census Bureau is out with new data that reveals more detail about the economic pain American families experienced in 2009. It was a tough year for children, as the rates of child poverty went up.September 28, 2010
• New campaign aims to end hunger in Minnesota
  Hunger is often perceived as one of life's intractable problems, affecting someone else's family. A new campaign launching Monday in Minnesota aims to show how hunger can spiral into larger problems that burden all of society.September 27, 2010
• Rural hospitals take unique approach to health care for the poor
  A growing number of hospitals are taking unusual steps to cut their losses and still provide care for the poorest of the poor.September 15, 2010
• Patients, hospitals having problems with revised GAMC program
  Three months after the state implemented a scaled-back health care coverage program for its poorest residents, many patients are waiting months for basic medical services and hospitals have lost millions of dollars in uncompensated care.September 15, 2010
• Record increase in US poverty with elections looming
  The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.September 12, 2010

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