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On Dec. 15, the Southwest Initiative Foundation (SWIF) hosted the Grow Our Own summit at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. A full lineup of experts focused on how...

About half of Granite Staters lack access to parental leave, and less than a third of workers have access to all three types of extended leave: for their own illness, for parental...

Beth, Mattingly, the director of research on vulnerable families at the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø’s Carsey School of Public Policy, shared information on Minnesota demographics...

While much attention has been given to rural America’s changing demographics, little is known about how conditions for rural immigrants compare to those for their native-born...

The Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø recently released a finding most parents already know — child care is too expensive. The research, written by...

A little over a quarter of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø families paying for child care spend more than 10 percent of their income doing so, according to a new University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø study....

One in four families with young children spend more than 10 percent of their family income on child care costs, according to new research from the Carsey School of Public Policy... Read More

The poverty rate for Maine families in 2014 would be 27.8 percent lower if the share of families headed by single mothers remained at the 1970 level, according to researchers at...

Less than 20 percent of school districts in the U.S. meet the recommended student-to-school counselor ratio of 250:1 or lower, according to new research from the Carsey School of...

Teachers and school officials across the state are dealing with the same problems to one degree or another. Those problems are showing up very early. In a recent survey by the...