Now that we have a budget surplus in Minnesota, we can finally help senior citizens who don’t have enough to live on. Seniors who have to decide between paying for prescriptions or food, or who are struggling to pay their rent. We all know someone like this. According to the Center on Budget and Policy, in 2020, 9% of seniors lived below the poverty line.
Climate change is affecting all of us. When I was a growing up, my dad took us fishing or swimming in clean lakes near our Minnesota farm. Land of 10,000 clean lakes, we would brag.
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Stores are reopening, restaurants are serving people, and businesses are sighing with relief. The worst is over. But wait! All Minnesotans are not thriving. Many are doing worse than before. The pandemic laid bare inequities between the wealthy and poor.