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Data through March 2011, released today by Standard & Poor's for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S. National Home Price Index declined by 4.2% in the first quarter of 2011, after having fallen 3.6% in the fourth quarter of 2010. The National Index hit a new recession low with the first quarter's data and posted an annual decline of 5.1% versus the first quarter of 2010. Nationally, home prices are back to their mid-2002 levels.

Key findings: * Education in Minnesota appears to be more "civic." * Twin Cities residents appear to have stronger social networks than do residents of Miami. * Levels of trust and satisfaction are much higher in the St. Paul area than in the Miami area * Twin Cities residents were more than twice as likely to volunteer than Miami residents