Fraud is historically pervasive around the country. This deep dive starts with a case involving Minnesota immigrants in the 1920s, and ends with modern-day legislation and support so the attorney general's office can increase its staff to levels comparable to other states in being able to convict more people of fraud. The office has convicted 350 people of fraud since 2019, including those involving personal-care agencies, housing services, and autism treatment programs.

Policymakers, Indigenous leaders, and Black collective participants discussed the long-time benefits of a collaborative, co-operative system at the Minnesota Cooperative Summit in Duluth. "Community wealth is collective."

In a compelling keynote talk at the Minnesota Co-op Summit in Duluth, Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout noted that allowing monopolies to control the economy "is an outrageous and crazy way to build a society." She said the anti-monopoly movement needs to join with the co-op movement — one of Minnesota’s nation-leading strengths. “If we take this moment, we can build something beautiful and new and resilient — a world of necessary people who aren't scared, who are free, planting cooperatives thick as trees all across America.”

"The propaganda many people seem to have bought into is that it is the lower classes — not the upper classes — who are leaving us hungry. The frenzied microscope points to misuse of tax dollars at the lowest of levels. Too many of our neighbors seem to be ignoring the fraud perpetrated at the highest levels. How did we get here?"