[Photo Credit: Southwest Initiative Foundation] Two young Minnesotans are on a mission: to change the way young Americans view manufacturing.
Evidently government bean counters in St. Louis County have taken a page out of Hennepin County assessors’ playbook. We recently noted the record number of complaints by Minneapolis property owners…
The passage of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December, the biggest overhaul of the tax code in more than three decades, offered Minnesota an opportunity to look…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
In its new report, the Economic Policy Institute claims that Minnesota's performance in labor force participation rates since Gov. Dayton took office vindicates Big Government policies. It can only say…
[Photo credit: AgCentric] What might be done to help Minnesota kids learn more about what agriculture is all about and what people in its remarkable variety of jobs do? A good…
Wisconsin's Gov. Walker inherited an unemployment rate of 8.1% in January 2011, and our own Gov. Dayton inherited one of 7.1%. Since then, Wisconsin's unemployment rate has fallen by 5.2…
Despite what the Economic Policy Institute might claim, the data show that since Governors Dayton and Walker took office, Minnesota's economic growth has lagged Wisconsin's.
Preliminary data for 2017 from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that, once again, Minnesota's economic growth lagged that of the nation. This continues a trend going back to at…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Milton Friedman was an economist with a rare gift for translating technical arguments into clear prose (as you will find at length in his books Capitalism and Freedom and Free…
New data shows that, on jobs, Minnesota's metropolitan areas are losing ground relative to their neighbors.
The Senate Republicans have released their tax bill and, like the bill that passed the House on Monday, it proposes cuts in lower income tax rates. While it leaves higher…
Our treatment by Congress and presidents back to George H. W. Bush has been downright shabby. The refugee resettlement program is a federal program; it was supposed to be paid…
The administrative state operates largely under the radar. Yet every once in a while the public gets a peek at the way things really work, how regulations written by anonymous…
The House tax bill, passed last night, is an improvement on the Governor's tax hike. But for all the talk of tax cuts, this is really only proposing to keep…
The majority of the consequences of any act are unintended. When appraising a policy, we must look at the unintended consequences, not just the intended ones.
Leftists often say they’re happy to pay taxes. So why the outrage from hundreds of residents in the reliably one party city of Minneapolis suddenly flooding City Hall with complaints…
Legislators didn’t bat an eye two years ago, passing licensing regulations for eyelash extension technicians. Despite warnings licensing would ultimately drive up costs and drive out businesses, most lawmakers voted…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
It is finally Tax Freedom Day in Minnesota, eight days after the national day. Every time in those last eight days that you have dragged yourself out of bed, commuted…
Career and technical education (CTE) programs are ready to be taken seriously. Gone is the vocational education of years past that was generally interpreted as second-best and known to channel…
Americans seem to love ranking their states and when these reflect well on the state Minnesota's media likes to publicize them. But a new ranking showing that our economic performance…
Minnesota's rate of job growth in the twelve months to March 2018 ranked 37th out of the 50 states. Isn't this because unemployment in the state was already low? Well,…