Mainstreet Project Offers Guide to the 2010 Census:

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CLAC congratulates Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin and the Latino immigrant "agripreneurs" for this ingenious project, which leverages immigrant know-how in benefit of Minnesota, its economy and the health of its residents. 

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New Opportunities Industrialization Center for Spanish Speakers Established in Minnesota

On January 8, 2010, the Minnesota OIC State Councilvoted to establish the “Teocalli Tequiotl OIC” as an official OIC Interest Group.

The new Teocalli Tequiotl OIC will be focused on education and training in the Spanish Speaking Communities throughout the State of Minnesota. The initial training will be in the areas of Business Education and English as a Second Language. The agency which took on this new OIC development is the Latino Economic Development Center a statewide organization that was formally established in 2003 and has actually established over three hundred Latino businesses in Minnesota since the early nineties. The initial training programs will take place in Minneapolis, St Paul and Willmar, Minnesota. The other members of the Minnesota OIC State Council have hailed this development as a great opportunity to serve a growing population.

Ramon Leon, Executive Director of the Latino Economic Development Center and the leader of this initiative stated, “The formation of the Teocalli Tequiotl OIC gives our Latino Community an important tool to incorporate the Latino population into the American Culture in a positive way”.

Contacts: Ramon Leon 612 724-5336 www.ledc-mn.org

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2009 Report: Immigrants and the Economy

This week, the New York-based, non-partisan Fiscal Policy Institute released its long-awaited report, Immigrants and the Economy: Contribution of Immigrant Workers to the Country's 25 Largest Metropolitan Areas (includes Minneapolis). The report studies the 25 largest metro areas (by population) which produce nearly one half of the total gross domestic product of the country. It shows that in the country's main metropolises, the share of the immigrant population stacks up neatly against their share of economic output.

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Despite progress, racial health disparities remain
Published by Minnesota House of Representatives (10/5/2009)

Minnesota is making progress on eliminating racial disparities in health care, but a lot of work remains to be done, members of a House committee learned.

Health Department Assistant Commissioner Patricia Adams told members of the House Health Care and Human Services Policy and Oversight Committee that 2001 legislation intended to curb disparities in infant mortality rates, immunizations and other health indicators is showing some positive results. Click here to watch the meeting in Windows Media Format.

“While not all of the goals have been met, substantial progress has been made,” Adams said.

Among 45 disparity indicators tracked by the department’s eight-year-old Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative, 11 percent have been eliminated and 51 percent have shown improvement; however, 13 percent have actually shown an increase in disparity. (Another 22 percent had no past or current disparities, Adams said.)

As examples, Adams presented tables showing that disparities in the rates of heart disease mortality between white and black Minnesotans had been more than 94 percent eliminated, while the disparity between whites and Native American Minnesotans increased by nearly 38 percent.

Adams emphasized that collecting health data by race is a “major challenge,” and said it is difficult to accurately compare data in certain health areas like immunizations, since few historical records existed before the program began.

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