Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 9/18/20
Trade
Pioneer Press: Minnesota exports fall 18 percent from the same time last year
Star Tribune: Minnesota’s exports fall $1 billion in second quarter
Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Minnesota stands to lose in any tariffs tussle with Canada
Economic growth
The Center Square: Covid-era economy in Minnesota ranked 9th best among 50 states
High Plains Journal: Rural Mainstreet Index inches up
Star Tribune: Pandemic’s toll on tourism hits Duluth hard
St. Cloud Times: QBR: Area firms begin to dig out of deep hole
Knox News Radio: GF Business News
Rochester Post Bulletin: Steve Grove: DEED leads way to economic recovery
Agriculture
Star Tribune: Why fewer Minnesota dairy farmers are going out of business
Star Tribune: EPA rejects quota reductions in victory for corn farmers, ethanol producers
Labor market
Redwood Falls Gazette: Minnesota minimum wage rate to be adjusted in new year
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal: Black workers bear brunt of Covid’s job shock in Minnesota
Economic development
St Cloud Times: Can tech startups thrive in a recession? It’s been done before
John Phelan is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment.