The average annual salary for Leisure and hospitality jobs in St. Louis County was just $16,904 in 2018. For Metal ore mining jobs, it was $98,954.
As the one-year anniversary of Janus v. AFSCME approaches, the national teachers’ union AFT (American Federation of Teachers) recently made a misleading claim about the case’s impact on union membership.…
Mortenson Construction is one of the largest renewable-energy construction firms in the country, but it appears the firm will be dolling out less “green” to their laborers. A recent story…
Last week, 75 conservative organizations signed a public letter to Congress opposing “any carbon tax” days after reports that Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney openly considered backing carbon tax bill,…
Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr and Jim Lakely in episode #195 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates,…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), serving low-income students in the nation’s capital, has generated high satisfaction among its participants.
A new study published by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) concluded that building new wind and solar farms is up to 120 percent more expensive per megawatt hour of…
Yesterday I posted about how India is building a lot of coal-fired power plants. These power plants would have a generation capability equal to building the Sherburne County (Sherco) coal-fired…
Paul Krugman’s arguments do not fare well against evidence presented in a new book titled "Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn’t."
During the legislative session, we heard Governor Walz, House DFL members, and liberal environmentalists call climate change an “existential crisis,” several times (give or take a million). This so-called crisis…
If Minnesota policymakers were truly concerned with providing reliable electricity at a low cost, they would be encouraging utility companies to utilize existing resources, like our existing coal, natural gas,…
(St. Paul, MN) – Katherine Kersten, Senior Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released a statement on the latest court ruling in the Cruz-Guzman lawsuit, which seeks a sweeping…
In the hunt for scarce labor, employers will face greater challenges. But workers will face increased opportunities. We should not be so quick to base state policy on tacking the…
The rivalry between the Packers and Vikings dates all the way back to 1961, when the Vikings entered the league as an expansion team. It continues to this day and…
My American Experiment colleague Isaac Orr was on WCCO radio on June 6 talking powerfully about how huge amounts of iron ore mined in Northern Minnesota, used to build ships,…
Xcel Energy wants to squander billions of your dollars on solar despite the fact that Minnesota is one of the worst places to build solar installations.
In May, we wrote that the already weak case for hiking taxes on Minnesotans had just got weaker. New numbers from Minnesota Management and Budget show that, since then, its gotten…
In Bernard Malamud’s classic metaphoric novel about baseball, The Natural, slugger Roy Hobbs is shot. Years later Charles Krauthammer wrote of how “no one knows why Hobbs is shot. It…
This is the Center’s most recent radio ad on the futility of “green” energy, i.e. wind and solar. In the current session, efforts to expand Minnesota’s renewable energy electricity mandate,…
Last week I was on the Paul and Jordana show to talk about how Minnesota’s iron miners played an indispensable role in the war effort during World War II. Click…
If Mr. McMillon thinks Walmart's workers are paid too little, there is nothing stopping him from raising their pay. He doesn't need Congress to make him do it. What Mr. McMillon…
If it was the other way around, we could hire people to stand in front of wind turbines blowing at them to make them turn faster. The effect on energy…
Independent school districts across Minnesota spent nearly $1.5 million of taxpayer funding to lobby state legislators and agencies in 2018, according to the latest report on local government lobbying expenditures…