Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 1/1/21
State and local taxes and spending
Star Tribune: Twin Cities metro-area homeowners facing friendlier property-tax outlook
Monticello Times: Minnesota’s 2021 Legislature faces complex budget puzzle
Brainerd Dispatch: County board sets levy, budget for next year
Star Tribune: Minnesota awaits its cut of $900 billion COVID stimulus
The Center Square: Minnesota ranks 32nd on unemployment insurance taxes
The Center Square: Minnesota residents pay $5,746 per capita in key state tax levies, study finds
Economic growth
Duluth News Tribune: Shopping by appointment and dining in an ‘igloo,’ businesses adapt to survive pandemic
Kare 11: What the federal stimulus and spending bill means for Minnesotans
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal: Business & Industry: Top execs from some of MN’s largest organizations reflect on past year
Al Jazeera: How Minneapolis small businesses banded together to survive COVID
Labor market
Kare 11: Minnesota’s minimum wage to get small inflation boost on Jan. 1
KBJR 6: Minnesota’s new minimum wage rate revealed for 2021
Star Tribune: Minnesota jobless to see new federal benefits this week
MPR News: Minnesota program will help some residents losing federal unemployment benefits
KEYC: Minnesota minimum wage increases Jan. 1
Star Tribune: Many of Minnesota’s lowest wage workers to get a raise of 6 to 8 cents an hour
Fox 9: Minnesota gets grant to help recovering addicts return to workforce
KBJR 6: New grant to help MN opioid victims return to workforce
Rochester Post Bulletin: Unemployment rate dropping after COVID peak
Economic development
Rochester Post Bulletin: How has DMC met job and tax goals in first 5 years?
John Phelan is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment.