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MNsure 101: Your guide

MNsure 101: Your guide

MNsure, the state's online health insurance marketplace, goes live on Oct. 1. We've created an essential guide to help you understand what MNsure is, how it affects you and your family, and how it will change your options for insurance coverage. Can you keep your doctor? We've got that covered, too.

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Chart: Child poverty stubbornly high in Minnesota

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show Minnesota is one of only two states in which the percentage of people in poverty fell in between 2011 and 2012. But child poverty remains stubbornly high, with 14.6 percent of Minnesota children living below the poverty level.

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No change in Minnesota's child poverty rate

No change in Minnesota's child poverty rate

State demographer Susan Brower says she isn't sure why the child poverty level won't budge, even as the economy turns around. But she has a couple of possible explanations.
by Julie Siple

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Teaching your kids the value of a dollar

What's the point of an allowance? Ron Lieber, a writer for The New York Times, says it's a tool to help teach values and character traits like patience, moderation, thrift and generosity, and there are three basic ways that parents approach an allowance.

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University Of Alabama moves to integrate Greek system

University President Judy Bonner acknowledged sororities and fraternities remain segregated. "While we will not tell any group who they must pledge, the University of Alabama will not tolerate discrimination of any kind," she says.

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Can mass shootings be stopped?

Can mass shootings be stopped?

Monday’s violence marked the sixth or seventeenth, depending on how you tally the data, mass shooting since the violence at Accent Signage in Minneapolis where a man shot six people before killing himself last September. Details about Monday’s killing spree continue to emerge. “As the investigation into Monday’s mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard…
by Michael Olson

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Too edgy? Too tame? Gay pride parades spark debate

Initiated as small, defiant, sexually daring protests, gay pride parades have become mainstream spectacles patronized by corporate sponsors and straight politicians as they spread nationwide. For many gays, who prize the events' edginess, the shift is unwelcome.

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Racial taunts greet new Miss America

Racial taunts greet new Miss America

Miss New York Nina Davuluri's victory led to some negative comments on Twitter from users upset that someone of Indian heritage had won the pageant. She brushed those aside. "I have to rise above that," she said. "I always viewed myself as first and foremost American."

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