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One of the most unforgettable economic policy statements I ever heard came from a presidential candidate in the early 1990s who explained that we had lots of people who needed work, and lots of work that needed to be done, and that we ought to get those two problems on the same page.
And so it is with the “skills gap” and the “equity gap” in Minnesota.
The week when federal taxes are due predictably generates fist-shaking by the various forces for individualism and small government, and increasingly, counter-demonstrations by the “99 percenters” who favor a stronger public sector and more fair economic outcomes.
One of the best things coming out of the 99 Percenters movement is an increasing public awareness of exactly who gets how much in our increasingly unequal nation. Continue Reading
Protesting the increasingly unfair advantage of the top 1 percent (arguably, economic conditions have gotten at least marginally better in recent decades for a somewhat larger 10 percent at the top) underlies much of the new energy around politics and policy these days. Continue Reading
As Owatonna high-schooler Jarrod Neuharth described his project designing parachutes from scratch _ learning how to sew from his grandmother, rustling up help from a local shoe-repair shop, linking up to a NASA project _ I got the sense that we might be see Continue Reading
A long-overdue campaign to promote the Twin Cities as one of the nation’s premier places for doing business and living well was launched last week by a new group of business and civic movers and shakers under the label Greater MSP (www.greatermsp.org).
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Peter Heegaard is a former executive for a financial firm, and he’s well-known in Minnesota public policy circles as a leader with a strong social conscience, a great combination of heart and passion for progressive change and hard-headed analytical sense on dollar Continue Reading
Few voices reflect Minnesota’s moderate mainstream ethics more perfectly than Star Tribune editorial columnist Lori Sturdevant, and her call-to-action for government “redesigners” in Sunday’s Star Tribune Op-Ex was squarely on target.