It was a near run thing, but, eventually, the Vikings put the Packers to bed at Lambeau Field last Sunday. But depressed cheese heads can find comfort in the results…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment exposes how federal policies implemented during the pandemic kept millions of people enrolled in Medicaid even after they gained…
Yesterday I wrote about net domestic migration into and out of Minnesota in response to an article in the Minnesota Reformer titled ‘Are Minnesotans really fleeing to low-tax states?’ State…
State funding per K-12 student — adjusted for inflation — is up 31 percent since 2002 despite enrollment being down 2 percent, according to an analysis by the Reason Foundation.…
Recently, I asked ‘What do states without an income tax do?‘ Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute asks a similar question about the states without an income tax: “How do…
When schools closed, the demand for online school resources increased. A new study has however found that most of the increase in demand for online learning resources occurred in areas…
The 1850s produced a string of flashpoints that pushed slavery to the forefront of politics even in Minnesota' and its journey to statehood would be intertwined with the issue.
Minnesota’s implacable opposition to slavery.
A response to our Monday op ed in the Star Tribune highlights the pitfalls of replying to things before reading them.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Given Minnesota’s leadership in the metro and the governor’s mansion, if you are cheering on the idea of punishing sanctuary cities, be careful what you wish for. Minnesota’s already overburdened…
In late June, the American Enterprise Institute released a study by three scholars which found “more than one-in-two black men (57%) have made it into the middle class or higher…
Americans are on the move to economically freer states. This means Minnesota, with its high taxes and regulations, is losing out.
Yesterday the White House released a “Fact Sheet” touting growing incomes, falling poverty, and rising health coverage in Minnesota. The fact sheet clearly aims to bolster the perception that all…
The Metropolitan Council released a report this week statistically documenting, once again, disparities between “persons of color and White, non-Latinos” in regards to poverty rates, home ownership, employment, and levels…
Center of the American Experiment recently released a report documenting that, year after year, Minnesota on net loses thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars to migration. Between…
The unacknowledged worlds of nonmarital fathers.