State and local taxes and spending Moose Lake Star Gazette: Action needed to avert looming state shortfall Star Tribune: St. Paul schools to raise property tax levy by 7.9% in…
State and local taxes and spending The Ely Echo: State budget issues loom Pioneer Press: Letters: We need more data to know if TIF is working for St. Paul The…
Most of the consequences of any action are unintended consequences. Hiking the minimum wage, for example, is intended to raise the wages of workers, but other — unintended — consequences…
A powerful U.S. Senator rebukes the Minneapolis Fed for playing politics with issues outside its ‘statutory mandate.’
U.S. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey sent a letter to Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari calling on him to cease the bank’s aggressive political lobbying…
Businesses respond to minimum wage hikes in a number of ways. When the costs of labor rise, businesses could lay off workers or reduce their hours. Some reduce fringe benefits.…
The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Samantha Fillmore are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 280 of the In The Tank Podcast. It seems lately like people who…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
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A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
We all want to see higher wages. They are the best way of guaranteeing a good standard of living. But, to be sustainable, they need to come from higher productivity,…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
This weekend the Fergus Falls Daily Journal carried an opinion piece by its editorial board titled ‘Minimum wage increase good for economy’. Sadly, both economic theory and the empirical evidence…
We all want to see higher wages. They’re are the best way of guaranteeing a good standard of living. But, to be sustainable, they need to come from higher productivity,…
In terms of a 'Border Battle', Minnesota's minimum wage hikes have raised wages for some workers relative to Wisconsin, but they have also lead to less employment in restaurants and…
A new organization, the Restaurant Workers of America, has been founded to fight for their rights to negotiate their own terms of employment.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
A round-up of the last week's economic news stories in Minnesota.
It’s a very silly season, even for Minnesota. We have cities adopting or thinking about adopting laws that tell private employers what to pay workers, how to manage paid time…
The minimum wage is a classic feel-good measure: who wouldn’t want relatively low-paid workers to earn a little more money? No one. In my view, the minimum wage doesn’t do…
Why are union bosses bashing California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs and the other plaintiffs in the Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association case? In a word: money. In three words: heaps of money. Public…