Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 7/31/20
Labor market
Star Tribune: Here’s why the $600 weekly jobless benefit meant so much to the U.S. economy
KEYC: COVID-19 unemployment benefits about to expire
WCCO: Extra $600 Unemployment Checks To End This Weekend
Star Tribune: Laid-off Minnesotans face a financial cliff with end of extra $600 payments
State and local taxes and spending
Finance & Commerce: Q&A: Bonding needed ‘now more than ever before’
Morrison County Record: More than 27,400 businesses applied for small business relief
Economic growth
Twin Cities Business: Minnesota New Business Filings Up 21 Percent Since Early June
Monticello Times: Immigration reform needed more than ever in Minnesota
Finance & Commerce: New data warns of ‘potential softening’ of state’s economy
Twin Cities Business: Minnesota Chamber: State’s ‘Initial Recovery Is Underway’
Economic development
Duluth News Tribune: Reader’s View: Listen to PUC, start Line 3 project
The Ripon Advance: Minnesota Republicans tout planned environmental impact study for home-state mining project
Regulation
Star Tribune: Minnesota businesses need relief from COVID restrictions before it’s too late
Star Tribune: Mask mandate isn’t playing well on some factory floors in Minnesota
John Phelan is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment.