Social Issues

New housing project opens for homeless American Indians
A new center opened in Duluth to provide badly needed housing for homeless American Indian families.
Anoka County will receive an award from the federal government later today for its work signing Minnesotans up for food stamps.
Occupy protesters want Mayor Rybak to explain arrests
About 50 protestors with the Occupy movement converged on Mayor R.T. Rybak's city hall office on Monday.
More women vets are homeless, but housing scarce
Once primarily male veteran problems, homelessness and economic struggles are escalating among female veterans, whose numbers have grown during the past decade of U.S. wars while resources for them haven't kept up.
A Twin Cities food bank is expanding to accommodate growing need and a greater supply of food.
The Week in Commentary
A summary of the week's commentaries and some of the responses they generated.
After a winter hiatus, members of the Occupy movement are planning to return to downtown Minneapolis.