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I have lived in Minnesota. It's a great place to live. Little chilly during the winter months, but great people with big hearts.
Social safety net is strong enough to hold lots of people from other states.
Minnesota has had medical care for the less fortunate for years. Many people with disabilities move from Wisconsin, where this is not available, to Minnesota while they wait to get on Disability. They even have dental clinics for those on Medicaid. Once again, many low income people from Wisconsin (and other states as well) come for dental care that is not available to them in their home states.
The Duluth Model is a coordinated approach to dealing with domestic violence. Starts with the police arresting abusers, crisis shelters, transitional housing and support, ... It has spread around the country, but it started in Minnesota.
Speaking of Duluth, remember Gordon Ramsey, the Wichita Chief of Police with the viral video of him dancing at the BLM protest and barbecue? He was the Chief of Police in Duluth for years. My guess is he is the one who suggested the barbecue in Wichita.
In Duluth, he advocated for Housing First to get people off the street and into supported housing. He also advocated for Crisis Response Teams so that social workers and police officers could work together to handle mental health crisis situations. Terrific guy. If cloning ever gets underway, I say we should start with him.
Minnesota is full of people like this. Honest. Hard working. Smart.
Great place to live and work.
https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/20...image_problem/ "If there were competition to be Minnesota’s most racist city, Duluth would likely be a heavy favorite. . . A few weeks ago, someone hung an effigy of President Obama from a prominent Duluth electronic billboard."
(Dateline Nov. 22, 2012)
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I'd question the idea that Duluth started this domestic violence approach.
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Since you have the question, one wonders why you didn't bother to do even the most basic research.
Every heard of Wikipedia? Good place to start.
"The Domestic Abuse Intervention Project was the first multi-disciplinary program designed to address the issue of domestic violence. This experimental program, conducted in Duluth in 1981, coordinated the actions of a variety of agencies dealing with domestic conflict. The Duluth model curriculum was developed by a "small group of activists in the battered women’s movement" [3] with 5 battered women and 4 men as subjects. The program has become a model for programs in other jurisdictions seeking to deal more effectively with domestic violence."
https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/20...image_problem/ "If there were competition to be Minnesota’s most racist city, Duluth would likely be a heavy favorite. . . A few weeks ago, someone hung an effigy of President Obama from a prominent Duluth electronic billboard."
(Dateline Nov. 22, 2012!
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So an article from 2012 about some racist ******* (sadly, they are everywhere) hung an effigy of President Obama proves that Duluth is racist?
Long story short, since 2010 MN adopted progressive economic policies while WI went the other direction with very conservative right-wing policies. Both states are very close to each other with similar climate and demographic; it couldn't be any better set for a showdown between liberals and conservatives' economic race. So who is better at job growth, employment, wage growth, and quality of life? If you've been paying attention, the answer will not surprise you - the liberals.
"Growth, employment, wage growth, quality of life," ... Minnesota has Wisconsin beat two ways to Tuesday.
So an article from 2012 about some racist ******* (sadly, they are everywhere) hung an effigy of President Obama proves that Duluth is racist?
So you can do research.
Good to know.
What is your issue? Yes, racists are everywhere. That's what I said. It's not like Minnesota, and Duluth in particular, is some haven from that as you seemed to be trying to say.
Minnesota taxes not only support a strong economy, it subsidizes the less fortunate from Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, ...
Social workers from the Dakotas regularly place children needing residential care in Minnesota. When they turn 18, the funding stops and their social workers tell them they are on their own. However, coming back would be pointless as there are few support services available in their former communities.
If it wasn't for Lutheran Social Services taking on these young people until they can get them situated, they'd be adrift in the world.
They do this with adults with significant mental health issues as well.
Not only does Minnesota provide a decent quality of life for residents, but they do the best they can with the less fortunate who are dumped there or who wander over from other states.
What is your issue? Yes, racists are everywhere. That's what I said. It's not like Minnesota, and Duluth in particular, is some haven from that as you seemed to be trying to say.
Where did I ever write that there were no racists in Duluth or Minnesota either for that matter?
Did you pull that one out of ... thin air?
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