We all want to see higher wages. They are the best way of guaranteeing a good standard of living. But, to be sustainable, they need to come from higher productivity,…
EducatedTeachersMn.com is a website the Center created just for teachers and educational support professionals (ESPs) who belong to the teachers’ union, Education Minnesota. The project seeks to inform and empower…
When you make the argument for mining in Minnesota, a common response is that it would threaten the region's booming tourism industry. Mining jobs aren't needed, so the argument goes,…
It’s hard to disagree with the malcontents that broke up the latest public meeting yesterday of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. Their main message? “PUC” stands for “Public Utilities Cowards,”…
Special interest groups for the wind and solar industry, in addition to companies like Mortenson Construction have begun pounding the table this election cycle, holding a news conference yesterday the…
Constitution Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution. It is observed on September 17, the day in 1787 that delegates to the…
The wild west-style shootouts in north Minneapolis over the weekend killed four and wounded six more. But there’s another side to the violence that doesn’t appear on the police blotter.…
Stanford University’s John E. Cogan has been writing brilliantly for decades about how federal entitlement spending has a nasty habit of growing a lot bigger and a lot faster than…
Did you know the City of Minneapolis wants you to reduce your driving trips by 37 percent by 2050? Find out why this plan is all pain and no gain…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That should be the tagline for MNIT, the state agency responsible for development and implementation of the disastrous vehicle and…
A recent paper by two Harvard economists argued that the economic benefits of mining would be outweighed by its negative impact on the recreational industry and on in-migration. But yet another of…
Tourism jobs are important, but it also important to understand and acknowledge the economic limitations of these jobs. They generally have lower wages and are more seasonal. Mining Minnesota's copper,…
Over the past week a number of residents in Republican-represented districts received mailers from the DFL accusing Republicans of voting “to give legislators a 45 percent pay raise," according to the Star Tribune. This is…
In a bad year for Minnesota sports, the Saint Paul Saints have made the American Association Championship for the first time since 2011.
Harvard economist omitted key jobs numbers in his analysis.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
As John Phelan noted last night, he and I spent yesterday in Washington, D.C., where I testified before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on the impact of the Tax…
The New York Times recently published an anonymous op-ed, supposedly by a senior Trump Administration official. The Onion also had two people close to the President write to them under the condition…
Not so fast! That’s the essence of the Star Tribune’s editorial aimed at the new slate of Minneapolis Park Board commissioners who ran on reform but now want to more…
As government in America has grown bigger and assumed power over more and more of our lives, people on both sides of the political divide either look to it to…
This afternoon, Center President John Hinderaker testified in front of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress in Washington D.C. on the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on…
The mining industry won a major victory in Minnesota Thursday, when the federal government lifted a controversial stay on minerals exploration in the area just outside the Boundary Waters Canoe…
We're rapidly reaching a dangerous tipping point where the cost of renewable energy subsidies and state-level renewable energy mandates will explode. High electricity prices hurt low-income families, seniors, and they…
As we approach the November elections there has been a lot of discussion about a “blue wave” coming to Congress. What proponents of this theory often reference is the idea of the…