Fewer families get health coverage from workplace, By Jackie Crosby, June 28, 2011, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “The number of Minnesotans who get health insurance through employers has dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, outpacing the decline nationwide, according to a study released Tuesday by the University of Minnesota. A decade ago, about 8 in 10 workers and their families received health benefits from a company-offered plan. By 2009, the most recent year available, 71 percent of Minnesotans were covered through the workplace. The shift parallels a trend in which growing numbers of Minnesotans earn lower wages and the ranks of those living in poverty swells…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty