Free speech and journalistic integrity both took a hit this week in Rochester, Minnesota as American Experiment attempted to host an event on public safety. As a think tank, that’s…
Starting today, businesses in Minnesota will start paying higher Unemployment Insurance taxes after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on replenishing the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. As the Minnesota…
The average high school graduate in 2019 earned higher average grades and was more likely to complete at least one relatively rigorous course of study than any graduating class in…
On Monday, I wrote about how Minnesota’s businesses were about to be hit with a steep hike in taxes if legislators didn’t vote by Tuesday to pay back the money…
The rate of year-over-year inflation in the United States hit a 40 year high in February. The rate of increase was higher in the Midwest than it was for the…
In 2017, the Minnesota Legislature established the Minnesota Premium Security Plan (MPSP), a reinsurance program that lowered premiums in the individual health insurance market by over 20 percent. Set to…
Generally, compared to most states, Minnesota licenses fewer occupations. However, we also license occupations that are rarely licensed in other states, and we do so much more onerously. Not to…
To be sure, it’s not official until next month. But after two years of keeping their distance from the public like so many other elected officials, the Duluth City Council…
An American Experiment event on the Crime Crisis was abruptly cancelled today by the Rochester Country Club after leftist activists pressured the venue with an online petition signed by 90…
The rent control ordinance passed in St. Paul last November is having exactly the consequences that were predicted before it was passed. If you set a price below a market…
Over 30,000 Minneapolis students have been shut out of their classrooms for five days now, as the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers went on strike on March 10. The union and…
The consequences of St. Paul’s rent control policy continue to pile up. While Mayor Melvin Carter is looking for a way to amend the policy, numbers show that construction has…
Despite a major initiative by state education officials, the number of high school seniors filling out college aid applications, a key predictor of interest in college, continues to decline. The…
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Minnesota last year, the virus and the state government’s response to it wrought havoc with our state’s economy. The unemployment rate rocketed from 3.5 percent in…
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has instructed the Department of Transportation and the Department of Agriculture to release a report detailing how Minnesota would adopt California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. California’s…
State and local taxes and spending St. Cloud Times: Minnesota needs to end tax on Social Security: Letter The Center Square: How Much Minnesota Homeowners Pay in Property Taxes Each…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Linnea Lueken, and the Center of the American Experiment’s Isaac Orr present episode 336 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode,…
Proponents of minimum wage laws often claim that the laws are responsible for increasing incomes of low-wage workers. In that case, employers are assumed to have significant market power, while…
I recently wrote about the 2022 Minnesota Student Survey provided by the state Department of Education that asks students inappropriate and personal questions about gender, sex, alcohol and drug abuse,…
The Met Council’s attempt to force through the Southwest Light Rail Transit line has finally sparked the scrutiny that the biggest public works construction in Minnesota history should have received…
The state Department of Education (MDE) has shut down a third nonprofit network in the free-food scandal. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has reported that MDE shut off the nonprofit network…
This week, the Minneapolis City Council released a long-awaited report analyzing the city’s response to protest and civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. Remarkably, this…
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that inflation was 0.8 percent in February and 7.9 percent over the year (for the Midwest, the figures were 0.9 percent and 8.0 percent, respectively). This…
On Wednesday, I testified in favor of the Consumer Choice of Fuel Act in the Minnesota Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Finance. This bill would repeal…