Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 9/28/18
State and local taxes
Grand Forks Herald: Taxes, debt top worries in Minnesota, North Dakota
MPR News: Daily Digest: Budgets and taxes
Duluth News Tribune: St. Louis County approves preliminary levy
KDAL: County Board Approves Tax Levy
New Prague Times: School board sets preliminary tax levy
Sun Focus: Fridley City Council certifies 2019 HRA property tax levy
Labor market
Star Tribune: Job vacancies in Minnesota climb another 16 percent to new record
WNAX: Minnesota Unemployment Rate Drops to Nearly 19-year Low
MPR News: Minn. worker shortage squeezing employers gets tighter
Southern Minnesota Today: Minnesota Job Vacancies Hit Record: 5 Jobs for Every 3 Unemployed People
KROC: Minnesota sets job vacancy records
Pioneer Press: Metro Transit apprenticeship program seeks to curb driver shortage
Star Tribune: For dropouts and other workers on the edge, employers have jobs and are adapting to find them
Wahepton Daily News: Minn. jobless rate lowest in almost two decades
Trade
West Central Tribune: A tangled web of trade and tariffs: Speakers in Willmar discuss Minnesota impact, especially on agriculture
Successful Farming: Taiwan signs deal to buy $1.56 billion in Iowa, Minnesota soybeans
Economic development
Star Tribune: Great Plains Institute helps drive a greener, more efficient Minnesota economy
Star Tribune: Business warming to greener economy that combats climate change
Star Tribune: Great Lakes cleanup has an economic ripple effect
Rochester Post Bulletin: Report: Great Lakes cleanup program boosts region’s economy
John Phelan is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment.