Understanding Minnesota’s abysmal test scores — with 42.6 percent of students performing at grade level in math in 2025 and only 47.6 percent at grade level in reading — can…
The healthcare “cuts” Democrats are using as an excuse to shut down the government are actually the phase-out of temporary pandemic-era Obamacare credits. Contrary to their current talking points, the…
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, after…
Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in July, after rising 0.3…
Darlis Adonay Espana-Santos, age 25, appears to be back on his way to his native Honduras after a court appearance this afternoon (Monday) at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.…
Three weeks past the deadline, Minnesota’s legislators finally passed a budget for the 2026-2027 biennium. Under this budget, the state government will spend $66.0 billion in the 2026-2027 biennium, down…
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated stay-at-home, social distancing, and cleaning orders dealt a heavy blow to the childcare industry. Family childcare providers, for instance, saw rising costs due to new…
This week, the Minnesota House of Representatives’ Health Policy and Finance Committee passed legislation to roll back a new taxpayer-funded program to provide health insurance to illegal immigrants. Republican Rep.…
On the campaign trail, President Trump talked a lot about getting prices down. If you take this to mean getting inflation back to the Fed’s target of 2% annual growth,…
What a second Trump term could mean for the U.S. economy. In his victory speech on Nov. 6, 2024, Pres.-elect Donald Trump strongly declared, “I will not rest until we…
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its numbers for inflation in November. They showed that “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent on a…
Back in 2021, I wrote about “a pair of studies from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis [commissioned by the cities] into the effects of the minimum wage hikes in Minneapolis and St.…
In April, KSTP news reported that “Although abortion remains a top issue…the economy is the most important issue influencing voters in 2024.” It continues: “According to our new KSTP/ SurveyUSA…
On Monday, I wrote about newly released data which showed that in the first quarter of 2024, Minnesota was one of ten states where the economy shrank. But, of the…
In May, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that federal law bars the state from recovering money from the estate of a husband for what Medicaid had paid for his wife’s…