Explore the database of nursing homes in the story. For each one, see: • Percent of residents with a serious mental illness • Number of abuse-related citations • Nurse staffing rating www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
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Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, which few of the facilities are equipped to handle www.wglt.org/illinois/202... by @apmresearchlab.org's @egawthrop.bsky.social w/@apmreports.org via WGLT
Abuse rates are higher at nursing homes with more mental illness
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — condi...
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Check out this great, interactive map of skilled nursing facilities in the U.S. by @alyclary.bsky.social, as well as a table by @egawthrop.bsky.social that allows you to look up your local nursing home's staff rating www.apmresearchlab.org/abuse-rates-... @apmresearchlab.org / @apmreports.org
Great reporting by Dan Kraker, and great mapping by our own @alyclary.bsky.social in the latest article in @mprnews.org's Troubled by the water series Across northern Minnesota’s pristine lake country, mercury contamination is growing www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
A look at revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report data in light of President Donald Trump’s firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It turns out that the revisions issued this month, while large, are not at all unprecedented.
How abnormal are the revisions in this month’s jobs report?
A look at revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report data in light of President Donald Trump’s firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It turns out that the revisions ...
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Wow! After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Hospitalization and mortality data from the Minnesota Department of Health do not signal a COVID-19 flare-up in the state so far this summer. U of MN wastewater measurements of the disease, however, are trending upward. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... by @craigstetter.bsky.social via @mprnews.org
Little evidence of a COVID-19 ‘summer surge’ so far in Minnesota
National data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are showing increases in COVID-19 activity. But data from the state’s health department show continued low numbers of COVID-19 hospita...
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Maya Chari digs into the question: "How are Trump’s auto parts tariffs affecting the broader economy?" Today's new inflation numbers show consumer prices continuing to creep up. But not so much for "motor vehicles and parts" More: www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/dozens-o...
How are Trump’s auto parts tariffs affecting the broader economy? — APM Research Lab
President Donald Trump made economic waves earlier this year when he announced a 25% tariff on imported automobiles and parts. Those announced tariffs have since been walked back. In fact, new inflati...
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"Troubled by the water" won another award: Murrow regional radio news series! www.rtdna.org/2025-regiona... Congrats!!! To our own @alyclary.bsky.social & @egawthrop.bsky.social, with @mprnews.org's @kirstimarohn.bsky.social, @benjovland.bsky.social & @apmreports.org's @jenpenned.bsky.social
I’m honored to have been part of such a great project with amazing colleagues! It just won a National Headliner Award!
APM Research Lab@apmresearchlab.org · last yr.Congrats!!! To our own @alyclary.bsky.social & @egawthrop.bsky.social, with @mprnews.org's @kirstimarohn.bsky.social, @benjovland.bsky.social & @apmreports.org's @jenpenned.bsky.social for a 3rd place National Headliner Award for “Troubled by the water” Read it: www.mprnews.org/environment/...
Pulitzer Center@pulitzercenter.org · last yr.An investigation by @mprnews.org and @apmresearchlab.org, based on data from @gristnews.bsky.social, mapped public state lands held as trust lands for the University of #Minnesota. This revealed how the university generates revenue by leasing these lands and who benefits from them. bit.ly/4lIzo4P
A map by my @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social, , resourced by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, for reporting by @mprnews.org, of data originally assembled by @gristnews.bsky.social See more: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
Congrats!!! -To our own @alyclary.bsky.social & @egawthrop.bsky.social, with @mprnews.org's @kirstimarohn.bsky.social, @benjovland.bsky.social & @apmreports.org's @jenpenned.bsky.social for a 1st place MBJA Sevareid Award for “Troubled by the water” www.mprnews.org/environment/...
Trouble by the water: Minnesota's vanishing natural lakeshores
Are Minnesotans loving their lakes to death? Nearly half of wild shorelines that protect lakes from pollution are now gone.
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It was great working with my Native News colleagues at @mprnews.org on this important story!
APM Research Lab@apmresearchlab.org · 2y agoProud to have partnered with @mprnews.org on this reporting about a little-known source of funding for the University of Minnesota Reporting by Melissa Olson with editing by Leah Lemm and #dataviz, including some of our best-ever mapping, by @alyclary.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
New! via @current.org Our managing partner, @craigstetter.bsky.social , highlights some bipartisan findings about public media from a major national audience research study called Researching Unmet Needs current.org/2025/04/stud...
Study finds conservatives and liberals want similar things from public media - Current
When asked about news attributes they value, people from opposite ends of the political spectrum aren’t that far apart, according to new audience research.
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Article out today in Current from @craigstetter.bsky.social of the APM Research Lab on a new study of Americans' unmet needs from media. "Audiences at both ends of the political spectrum say they are looking for programming related to history and local news." current.org/2025/04/stud...
Study finds conservatives and liberals want similar things from public media - Current
When asked about news attributes they value, people from opposite ends of the political spectrum aren’t that far apart, according to new audience research.
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Our latest collaboration with @mprnews.org: A look at the growth in popularity of homeschooling in Minnesota www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... by @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social & @craigstetter.bsky.social, editor @paultosto.bsky.social
Minnesota homeschooling leaped during COVID and counts continue to climb
After Minnesota schools shut their doors at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 10,000 families decided to educate their children at home. Five years later, the number of homeschoolers state...
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What to do when the data doesn’t exist? Sometimes you have to do the manual grunt work, but you end up being able to make data newly accessible to the public. — @alyclary.bsky.social on our partnership with @mprnews.org & @apmreports.org at #NICAR25.
Stellar #NICAR25 panel! 📈 @apmresearchlab.org’s @alyclary.bsky.social 📊 @caitmcglade.bsky.social AZ Republic 📈 @lighthousereports.com’s Charles Boutaud
Some great advice from my @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social at #NICAR25: 1. When you’re putting together a database, YOU get to determine its parameters. If something is giving you a headache, talk to an editor about whether it’s necessary...
Here's the story @alyclary.bsky.social worked on with @mprnews.org @kirstimarohn.bsky.social @apmreports.org: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/1...
Minnesota counties stand to lose millions after Supreme Court ruling
In Minnesota, tax-forfeited properties generate millions of dollars that local governments use to run their operations, according to an analysis of public records by MPR News, APM Reports and the APM ...
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And a deeper dive on the data from @alyclary.bsky.social: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/1...
Behind the data: A look at Minnesota counties that profited from tax forfeited properties
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that counties can no longer profit from the sale of tax-forfeited properties. We analyzed data from the state’s most populous counties and found local governme...
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Hey #NICAR25, looking for a great 10:15 session today? My @apmresearchlab.org colleague @alyclary.bsky.social is on a great panel addressing what to do when the data don’t (yet) exist. Join me in Grand Portage Ballroom 1 (4th floor)!
