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New data shows which Minnesota counties saw economic growth…or not
Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its prototype estimated for Gross Domestic Product by County for the years 2012 to 2015. True, they are only prototypes and cover a limited and fairly h...
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Minnesota doesn’t need higher gas taxes
In terms of revenue the politicians in Saint Paul have never had it so good. Why, then, are they pleading poverty and planning to take more of their citizen's money from them? If they are having troub...
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Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women
The “gender wage gap” is as real as unicorns and has been killed more times than Michael Myers....
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Minnesota’s economic news, w/e 12/7/18
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota...
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Minnesota’s government is forecast to take $1.5 billion more from the state’s taxpayers than it says it needs. What should it do with that money?
Minnesota's state government is forecast to have a surplus of $1.5 billion over the next two years. This should kill stone dead any notion that tax increases are called for. Department of Revenue data...
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