Minnesota Budget Bites

Excluding immigrant Minnesotans – who make up close to 9 percent of our state’s population – puts them and their families at risk, and it makes it more difficult for our state and communities to recover from this public health crisis.

Due to the impact of historical racism and ongoing forms of discrimination and bias, BIPOC communities (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) will more acutely feel the economic and health effects of this coronavirus crisis. Without attention to equity, they are more likely to be left out of the policy responses.

We’ve called for an inclusive approach to the public health crisis and the related economic impact. While the latest...

The federal government has begun to respond to the coronavirus with legislation over the past few weeks. The first was...