Immigration - Overview - Minnesota Compass

Immigration - Overview - Minnesota Compass

A new online resource makes it easy to find information on the changing demographics of Southwest Minnesota. Minnesota Compass is a nonprofit site let by Wilder Research and dedicated to research in the field of human services. The site provides information, data, and trends on many issues including immigration.
Data in the immigration section of the site can be broken down by region and then analyzed by age, employment, education, county of residence, country of origin, and many other factors.
The site also includes information on aging, education, transportation, the environment, and other issues. All data will be updated later this year to reflect the 2010 Census.
Minnesota Compass is located at: www.mncompass.org. Click on “Immigration” in the topic bar to view immigration data.

Kids Count: Southwest Minn. better than U.S. | Worthington Daily Globe | Worthington, Minnesota

Kids Count: Southwest Minn. better than U.S. | Worthington Daily Globe | Worthington, Minnesota

WORTHINGTON — Counties in southwest Minnesota have more children living in poverty than the state as a whole, according to KIDS COUNT data recently released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

The organization releases an annual report on measures of child-well-being on the national, state and community level.

Of the six area counties analyzed, only two — Murray (11 percent) and Rock (11.2 percent) — had a lower percentage of children living in poverty than Minnesota as a whole (11.4 percent).

Considering data from 2008, the most recent available, Cottonwood County had the highest poverty rate with nearly 16 percent. But all area counties fared better than the nation as a whole, where 18 percent of children live in households where the income is below $21,834 for a family of four.

The only county with a significant fluctuation in the past decade was Nobles County, where the rate jumped from 13 percent in 2004 to 19.5 percent in 2007 and down to 15.3 percent in 2008.

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