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Minnesota’s Hmong community has grown and changed since the first Hmong refugees arrived in the Twin Cities in the 1970s. 

 of the state Legislature, a college prep charter school in St. Paul that specializes in meeting the needs of Hmong students and hundreds of businesses owned by Hmong men and women — so many that they have 

But Minnesota’s Hmong community still lags behind other groups when it comes to household income, and discrimination and misinformation about the ethnic group persists.

Yao Yang seeks generational change at Hmong Chamber of Commerce

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with three leaders in Minnesota’s Hmong community about education, the economy and politics and what’s being done to address remaining disparities.

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A lot has changed in Minnesota’s Hmong community since the first Hmong refugees arrived to the Twin Cities in the 1970s. Host Angela Davis talks with three Hmong community leaders about education, the economy and politics and what’s being done to address remaining disparities.

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