When Congress tried to 'tax the rich' and it raised no revenue.
Today Minnesota Management and Budget released their biannual Budget and Economic Forecast. The state’s economist projected a $1.332 billion state surplus, and that’s after sending $284 million to the budget…
In response to the Budget and Economic Forecast projecting a $1.332 billion surplus, Center of the American Experiment Economist John Phelan released the following statement: “We can attribute this budget surplus…
Improving Minnesota’s air quality is often used as justification for mandating wind and solar on our electric grid, and now groups like Fresh Energy want to ban the use of…
A person’s ability to enter the workforce and access a successful career path should not be determined solely by the presence or lack of a four-year degree. Degree inflation is…
Minnesota's youth employment ratio has declined more than the national rate since 2000; minimum wages have been found to disproportionately impact youth employment; and our minimum wage has been especially…
Tonight I will be in Kiester, Minnesota to talk about the high cost of wind and solar power as part of Center of the American Experiment’s continued mission to reach…
Founder and former CEO Steven Wilson of Ascend Learning, a charter school network in Brooklyn, New York, discusses the emergence of anti-intellectualism in k-12 education.
It is the easiest thing in the world to spend someone else's money. Juggling all these many pressures, as these restaurateurs and other entrepreneurs have to, is rather harder.
Center of the American Experiment released new research today that analyzes current trends in Minnesota’s labor market and predicts the future of the state’s workforce for the next two decades.…
There is no reason for CUB to be more upset about Minnesota Power’s rate increase than Xcel Energy's. I submit that the reason CUB is less forgiving of Minnesota Power's…
Last year’s Janus v. AFSCME decision by the U.S. Supreme Court freed public employees from being forced to financially support a government union, but the affected states are not fully…
Our new report on Minnesota's Workforce to 2050 asks what our state's policymakers can do to help alleviate the coming fall in the labor force.
Government-approved monopoly utility companies in the Midwest continue to pad their guaranteed corporate profits by building more wind and solar installations, along with the transmission lines needed to transport the…
Germany is often (wrongly) touted as an example for Minnesota to follow in terms of energy policy despite the fact that Germans pay three times higher electricity rates and emissions…
This article originally appeared in The Duluth News Tribune. In late September, Gov. Tim Walz announced he would circumvent the Legislature by using the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s bureaucratic rulemaking…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…