Investing in youth to prevent crime and poverty

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Investing in youth to prevent crime and poverty

A new Minnesota Department of Human Services report shows just how many young people are living in poverty. An estimated one-third of Minnesotans between the ages 0 and 17 — that’s roughly 420,000 children — were so poor they qualified for either Medicaid or MinnesotaCare last year and 4 out of 10 Minnesota babies were born to mothers covered by those programs.