As the year comes to an end, we would like to thank you for supporting our mission to bring facts into focus. Once again in 2023, we provided data-driven reporting on a wide variety of topics, from education and the environment to health and public policy.
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Washington D.C., Florida, and Illinois had the nation’s highest rates of abortion in 2020, while D.C., Kansas and New Mexico saw the highest proportion of abortions obtained by out-of-state residents.
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McCourtney Institute's May 2022 Mood of the Nation Poll results show that roughly 3 in 10 Americans favor unfettered freedom to chose abortion, while almost 1 in 4 prefer abortion to be “legal most of the time," which corresponds to the laws in almost every state while Roe v. Wade remains in force. Over 1 in 3 favor abortion to be illegal except in extreme circumstances.
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Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic the pattern of deaths quickly became the latest manifestation of racial and ethnic health disparities, with Black, Indigenous and other people of color dying at much higher rates than White and Asian Americans. More recent data show that racial and ethnic gaps in COVID-19 death rates between White and BIPOC Americans are closing, but that disparities remain.
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In early February the USDA confirmed that HPAI was found at a commercial farm with 29,000 turkeys in Dubois County, Indiana. Since then, the flu has spread rapidly now impacting nearly 38 million chickens and turkeys in backyard flocks and large commercial operations alike.
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Minnesota is home to some of the nation’s worst race-based disparities in employment and homeownership—and it is where George Floyd was murdered at the hands of police, sparking a national reckoning. Could that be because discrimination is worse in Minnesota? According to one recent survey the answer is: Quite possibly, yes.
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In 2021, Minnesotans are less overwhelmingly optimistic than they were in 2017, and this is especially true among Black Minnesotans and Republicans.
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The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked major racial reckoning around the world. If it wasn’t obvious before that day that Minnesotans needed to better understand one another across racial and ethnic lines, it certainly was after. Minnesota’s Diverse Communities is a public opinion survey that aims to elevate the collective voices of communities that are typically underrepresented.
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The Census Bureau released its first numbers from the 2020 decennial census. This first release apportions Congressional seats and associated Electoral College votes based on each state’s population. And, at least at first look, the numbers favor Republican-leaning states in the nation’s south and west.
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