New research suggests that the average net social value of occupational licensing is negative: The social cost of reduced labor supply exceeds the social benefit from consumers higher willingness to…
The explosion of personalized learning in k-12 education has resulted in more than 90 percent of schools using digital tools to individualize classroom instruction. But research showing personalized learning is…
In addition to all the new true believers in Gopher football there surely are new skeptics also, but not the kind with doubts about whether the team is really good.…
The Tax Foundation has released its 2020 State Business Taxation Index and Minnesota is ranked 45th among the 50 states. This is two positions down from 2019 when the state…
In September, the Walz Administration announced its intention to force Minnesotans to comply with low-emissions vehicle (LEV) and ‘zero’-emissions vehicle (ZEV) regulations developed by unelected bureaucrats on the California Air…
The Twin Cities’ ‘affordable housing’ shortage was caused by their politicians and their taxes, fees, and regulations, not by mythical 'free enterprise'. It is optimistic at best to think that…
There is no link between high tax burdens and a state being a nicer place to live or having a better education system.
The Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) announced the proposed teacher licensing changes will “set forth the knowledge and skills that all teachers must demonstrate to receive their license"…
According to an article in The Financial Times, China is set to add new coal-fired power plants equivalent to the EU’s entire capacity. as the world’s biggest energy consumer ignores…
A Worker’s Choice Act recently introduced in the House would give private sector employees in a unionized workplace freedom to independently negotiate their employment terms with their employer if they…
Listen up, bike lovers. You can now turn your leisure-time passion for cycling into a career at Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical (MSC) in Red Wing. The college has just enrolled…
Twin Metals made waves earlier this year when the company announced they would be using the dry stack tailings storing method, which is considered to be one of the safest…
National Apprenticeship Week is the real deal, particularly as marked this year by the Washington-based Urban Institute, which under the leadership of economist Robert Lerman, has been an essential voice…
Hello! Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins and Jim Lakely present episode 218 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features discussions that explore the work of think tanks…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Pipeline—which stands for “Industry-Based, Employer-Driven Dual-Training Experience”—is a still relatively new program that awards companies up to $150,000 a year to cover expenses “related to an employee’s instruction toward attaining…
No matter how it is framed, the most recent scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress paint a troubling picture of reading achievement in the country. One possible culprit:…
How can American employers better tap into the talents of students in our nation’s community colleges? Accenture, a global professional services firm, believes that enhanced use of apprenticeships offers an…
A new report from the MIT Energy Initiative warns that EVs may never reach the same sticker price so long as they rely on lithium-ion batteries, the energy storage technology that…
By the time of his death in 1989, Sugar Ray Robinson, the best pound-for-pound boxer who ever lived - suffered from Alzheimer's disease and lived in relative poverty. Just as…
In late September, Governor Walz announced that he would seek to impose California’s mandates for zero emission vehicles and low emission vehicles on Minnesota. Rather than passing this proposal through…
Plans are afoot to legalize recreational marijuana in Minnesota. But what can the experience of the 11 states which have already legalized recreational marijuana in some form tell us about…
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to a local city council about the obstacles to the construction of affordable housing which state and local governments erect in terms of…
As another teachers’ union-led demonstration keeps students out of school, the national headlines covering the rally only focus on part of the story.