More “crumbs” as Nancy Pelosi put it for the workforce of another mega Minnesota employer, thanks to the federal tax cuts. Hormel Foods recently jacked up beginning wages to $13…
We wrote about Amazon’s plans for a massive second corporate headquarters, and the Twin Cities’ bid to be considered for its location, here, here, here and here. The last linked…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
America needs more welders, and recently a delegation of them went to Washington to tell policy-makers so. Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York wrote about their visit in the Wall…
Finding workers for hard-to-fill skilled jobs is one of the toughest challenges that Minnesota’s small- to medium-sized employers face. Fortunately, a revolutionary new on-line search tool—the RealTime Talent Exchange—now gives…
Anyone who commutes to work in the Twin Cities knows it’s slow going most days and getting slower. Metro highways and freeways are backed up almost 25 percent of the…
General Mills, one of Minnesota’s premiere Fortune 500 companies, made the news this week with renewed speculation that the company is ripe for a takeover. According to the Star Tribune,…
In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dileep Rao, a professor of finance, bemoans the fact that Minnesota is no longer producing the cutting-edge, rapidly growing companies that once fueled the state’s…
The Star Tribune recently reported on Golden Valley-based General Mills’ plans to pressure the food giant’s advertising agencies to adhere to strict racial and gender staffing quotas or forget about…
Today, the St. Cloud Times published this op-ed by American Experiment Senior Policy Fellow Kathy Kersten: If you’re like most Minnesotans, you may believe our state is doing great economically.…
I wrote the op-ed below, on Minnesota’s economy, for some of the free suburban weeklies in the Twin Cities. It is beginning to appear in those papers. One of American…
Connecticut’s dismal economic performance and budget crisis offer a harsh lesson on the limits and consequences of a state raising taxes too high. My analysis of data from the IRS that…
Today the St. Cloud Times published an op-ed I wrote on how Minnesota’s high taxes are becoming even more of an outlier as a number of states, including traditionally high tax…
Minnesota has long been a fertile state for growing successful businesses. The roster of Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Minnesota in the 1970s...