Economy
Buffalo tackles Minnesota's accountability gap
Accountability and transparency are not only desirable, but crucial in all government interactions with the public. A dollar spent on education should result in a dollar's worth of educated citizen.
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Made in MN 2009: Homegrown holidays
It's the time of year when people gather for holiday parties and receptions and to entertain. That means it is also time for Minnesota 2020 to renew its "buy local" campaign for the third year. A severe recession lingers despite some promising signs it may be bottoming out and a slow recovery may be starting. But "happy days" are not here again - at least not yet.
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Former Agriprocessors manager found guilty on 86 counts
A Sioux Falls, So. Dak., jury returned to the courtroom late Thursday afternoon and found former Agriprocessors manager Sholom M.MORE »
NEWS DAY | MN unemployment edges up to 7.6 percent
Minnesota's unemployment rose to 7.6 percent in October, the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) reported this morning.MORE »
Minnesota experience offers solution to the ‘jobless recovery’
When President Obama convenes a White House forum next month to consider ways to create jobs, he should consider a program that worked successfully for Minnesota in the 1980s, a noted labor economist says. The Minnesota Emergency Employment Development program, known by its acronym, MEED, was in place from 1983-1989. About 45,000 people enrolled in the program, which provided a wage subsidy of up to $4 per hour ($10 in 2008 dollars) for employers to hire new workers, many of whom were low-skilled or among the long-term unemployed. MORE »
Playwright-poet perfects the art of getting by
Resourcefulness, thy name is David Daniels. Has been for quite some time.
In 1999, Daniels found himself homeless and refused to let it dent his fender. He remained employed as assistant manager at a Barnes & Nobles in downtown Minneapolis, couch hopped, house sat, sublet, and did the roommate thing.
For three years.
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Journalists of color train to track stimulus money
Ethnic Americans say they have a far better image of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), otherwise known as the $751 billion federal stimulus package Congress passed almost nine months ago, than do Whites.
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Minnesota's small banks deserve credit for keeping entrepreneurship afloat
Given all that's happened on Wall Street, it is difficult to salute financial institutions for what they did leading up to and during the past two year's of financial crisis. That overlooks great work being done here in Minnesota and next door in Wisconsin for which salutes are in order.
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The bottom 40 percent
This is from a Jon Taplin post at Talking Point Memo Cafe:MORE »
Higher education grant shortfall makes choice easy for policymakers
The state Office of Higher Education announced a $13 million shortfall in the Minnesota State Grant Program last week, the result of an impressive demand for higher education during these times of high unemployment.MORE »
