They run child care centers, health care agencies, salons, restaurants, consulting firms and retail shops. Many work two jobs ...

Somali immigrants in Minnesota are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s claim that they don’t work and contribute nothing, pointing to decades of labor and entrepreneurship. At Hamdi ...

Somali Minnesotans have a higher labor participation rate than the general population. They work as truck drivers, nurses, manufacturing workers and entrepreneurs.

In 2015, I penned an article for the Pioneer Press titled, “Somalis are resilient Americans, not terrorists.” At the time, Minnesota’s Somali community was facing a wave of politically motivated ...