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Minnesota Democrats are trying to turn a comment about steel from Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Mike McFadden into a major campaign issue to unite Iron Range residents against him — something that could help the DFL in other races as well.
Our public workforce should reflect our state’s diversity, but Minnesota is not living up to this standard. Research shows that 10 percent of Minnesota’s civilian noninstitutionalized population has a disability, but only a little more than three percent of state public employees are disabled. The state’s disabled workforce has been shrinking for 15 years—now is the time to reverse the trend. Continue Reading
As we posted in Cafe charging “minimum wage fee” to “offset state increase of minimum wage for tipped employees,” the River Oasis Cafe in Stillwater charged diners an added $.35 cents on breakfast tab. Continue Reading
Some 26,000 home health care workers across Minnesota are voting this month whether to join a union.
A reader sent Bluestem the photograph of a tap from a restaurant in the east metro, to which a “minimum wage fee” of thirty-five cents has been tacked on to a fifteen dollar tab. Continue Reading
While Matt Entenza’s new television ad highlights his campaign talking point about the need for the state auditor to battle the drive to privatize public pensions, little light has been shone in the media about where incumbent auditor and endorsed DFL candidate Rebecca Otto stands. Continue Reading
Thousands of Minnesotans are getting a long overdue raise as the state’s first minimum wage increase in nine years goes into effect. The state minimum wage for large employers, at $8.00 per hour starting today, will increase to $9.00 in 2015 and $9.50 in 2016 followed by annual cost of living increases. This is great news for workers, for businesses and for our economy. Minnesota 2020 joined members of the Raise the Wage Coalition to celebrate this important step in moving Minnesota forward. Continue Reading
Minnesota’s pension problem is not the problem that conservative policy advocates assert. Rather, our problem is that Minnesota would be better off if more Minnesotans had pensions.
Minnesota’s minimum wage goes up Friday, August 1, the first increase since 2005 and the first step of several increases that will boost the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2016.
Tuesday, August 12 may or may not be on your radar, but it should be: that’s the day for Minnesota’s primary election.