How Minnesota compares on Medicaid spending
When it comes to welfare, Minnesota is a generous state as CAE’s newest report has outlined. This generosity is prevalent both when looking at spending as a share of the…
When it comes to welfare, Minnesota is a generous state as CAE’s newest report has outlined. This generosity is prevalent both when looking at spending as a share of the…
Better late than never, I guess. State Attorney General Keith Ellison filed paperwork today to remove Ayan Abukar — Feeding Our Future Defendant No. 58 — from her role running the…
State senate Democrats fired their top staff person, yet you the taxpayer are on the hook for $203,000. It may all sound like a tempest-in-a-teapot, and the $ amount may…
Last year, I wrote that: In 2015, Hennepin County seized Geraldine Tyler’s Minneapolis condo “over about $2,300 of unpaid property taxes, plus $12,700 in penalties, interest and fees.” The county…
After a $1.5 billion deficit forecast from the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Gov. Walz appears to be taking the agency’s warning seriously, proposing a budget that according to him…
In addition to dedicating a larger share of the budget to welfare, Minnesota ranks at the top when welfare spending is controlled for the population of people in poverty. As…
As I wrote last week, last year was a big year for welfare expansion in Minnesota. Overall, lawmakers dedicated over $6 billion in new money to Health and Human Services.…
Two more defendants in the free-food scandal will be traveling overseas this spring. We’ve noted before the globe-trotting habits of defendants in the sprawling Feeding Our Future case. And that…
For a few hours early this week, it appeared that we would have an 19th guilty plea in the sprawling free-food case. On Monday, March 11, attorneys for Ahmed Artan,…
When the federal or state government swoops in to acquire land for wildlife refuges and other purposes, they’re supposed to reimburse counties for revenue lost as a result of removing…
Minnesota’s welfare system underwent significant expansion last year. This post is a breakdown of all the new spending that happened last year. As American Experiment’s most recent report notes, welfare…
1. The Senate Rules Committee held a hearing Friday on the internal rules that govern the Senate. No votes were taken as legislators offered possible changes and amendments. Sen. Steve Drazkowski (R-Mazeppa) offered…
Pointless A helpful way to begin assessing proposed legislation is to ask two questions: What problem does this bill address? How will this bill address that problem? A good example…
“Minnesota Nice” may not hold across the board, but when it comes to welfare, it’s right on the money. By any metric, Minnesota has always had a vast and generous…
The current contract talks between AFSCME union workers and the city of Virginia have been rocky from the start. AFSCME Local 454 filed for mediation before the two sides even…
Governor Tim Walz received some very good news this week when they announced the state budget survived the 2023 legislative session and in fact is still delivering more money than…