Every ounce mattered: How Minnesota saved eighth seat in U.S. House A margin of 26 people helped state beat out N.Y. May 1, 2021 5:46pm Text size Copy shortlink:
XP Lee hadn t thought much about the census before attending a 2018 meeting on the nationwide population count for his job with the city of Brooklyn Park.
But he sat up when state officials said Minnesota came within 15,000 people of losing one of its eight seats in Congress a decade ago and things were looking even tighter now.
He figured there were thousands of people undercounted in his own Hmong community. I realized you only get this one opportunity every 10 years, said Lee, who decided to leave his job with the city to work on statewide census efforts.
Editorial Roundup:Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune. April 27, 2021.
Editorial: The 2020 census: Nice job, Minnesota
It took years of planning and strong execution to save the state’s eighth seat in Congress.
Minnesota has successfully hung onto all eight of its congressional seats, thanks to a top-in-the-nation turnout for the most recent U.S. census, the decennial count of the nation’s population.
That it did so was no fluke, but the result of years of work, planning, preparation and then execution under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. Minnesota had been in serious danger of losing a congressional seat, until a broad coalition of foundations, community groups, tribal nations, corporations and strong partnership with the state demographer’s office went to work, starting as far back as 2015.
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First $1 million to cover Lyft rides to and from vaccination appointments
Target Corp. has earmarked $5 million to support global, national and local efforts to help boost community access to COVID-19 vaccinations.
Minneapolis-based Target said Monday that, to start, the company is contributing $1 million to nonprofits offering access to free and discounted rides to coronavirus vaccine appointments via the Lyft Universal Vaccine Access campaign. Under the program, the rideshare company and a coalition of partners provide underserved communities access to rides to and from immunization sites.
Target noted that the donation, expected to fund tens of thousands of rides, expands its existing partnership with Lyft to provide all U.S.-based Target employees with free roundtrip Lyft rides to vaccine appointments, up to $15 each way.
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