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NPR poll: The delta surge pushed Americans further behind in all walks of life

NPR poll: The delta surge pushed Americans further behind in all walks of life

Many families are under financial stress, parents see kids seriously behind in school, huge rent bills and looming evictions and delayed medical care has negative consequences, to name a few.
by Selena Simmons-Duffin and Joe Neel

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More sizzle in Minnesota tax revenue

More sizzle in Minnesota tax revenue

Lawmakers will be awash in extra money in their 2022 session based on strong tax revenues and a pot of federal cash.
by Brian Bakst

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Checking in with Black-owned businesses

Checking in with Black-owned businesses

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Black business owners about whether more support materialized during the racial reckoning following George Floyd’s murder.
by Angela Davis, Maja Beckstrom and Samantha Matsumoto

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3 U.S.-based economists receive economics Nobel Prize

3 U.S.-based economists receive economics Nobel Prize

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for pioneering research on the labor market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education, and for creating the scientific framework to allow conclusions to be drawn from such studies that can't use traditional methodology.
by The Associated Press

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Survey: Many Minnesotans distrust media

Survey: Many Minnesotans distrust media

Many Minnesotans don’t trust the state’s news media or believe it does a good job of covering people like them. That’s the findings of the APM Research Lab’s new Diverse Communities Survey, which interviewed more than 1,500 Minnesotans about media trust and other topics.
by David H. Montgomery

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North Dakota photo business closure leaves couples in lurch

The abrupt closure of a North Dakota-based photography business has left couples in several states, including Minnesota, scrambling to locate wedding photos or find new photographers for upcoming nuptials.
by The Associated Press

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Long-term care CEOs: Pandemic pushing staff shortages to crisis levels

Long-term care CEOs: Pandemic pushing staff shortages to crisis levels

Minnesota long-term care leaders say they have 23,000 open positions and that the shortage has never been worse. That’s forcing some care facilities to restrict admissions. "We can't admit people if we don't have the staff to take care of them," one CEO says.
by Peter Cox

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WhatsApp outage left Minnesota man with limited access to family in Honduras

WhatsApp outage left Minnesota man with limited access to family in Honduras

When an outage knocked Facebook and its various affiliate sites out for several hours earlier this week, it also took down WhatsApp, the main source of communication for a majority of people in Latin America.
by Vicki Adame

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