Large businesses in Saint Paul are already paying their workers at least $15ph and raising the city's minimum wage has always been about raising costs for the city's small businesses.…
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.
Despite economic theory and empirical evidence being against such a move, Saint Paul's Mayor, Melvin Carter, seems intent on imposing a $15ph minimum wage without a 'tip credit' on the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Who collects your garbage may not be the most compelling issue of the day–until it comes to your city and street. Just ask the thousands of residents of St. Paul…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Considering the likely origin of the cobalt in your phone, will you drop it in the bin? Or will you support environmentally sustainable mining in northern Minnesota? That is the…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That should be the tagline for MNIT, the state agency responsible for development and implementation of the disastrous vehicle and…
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.
Anti-pipeline activists forget that engineering is a science, and that it allows us to transport oil and natural gas safely through pipelines more than 99.999 percent of the time. These…
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’re are the best way of guaranteeing a good standard of living. But, to be sustainable, they need to come from higher productivity,…
You’d never know it from the media’s selective coverage of the environment. But our nation’s air quality has vastly improved over the past several decades, even as the economy tripled…
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.
Advocates of minimum wage hikes all too often live in a fantasy world where employers are vast corporations whose owners and managers are swimming in piles of cash while paying…
I was an external candidate when I was hired as an editorial writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the summer of 1983. This was very good news for…
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 is true that "High skills = High wages". But this means that we need to increase skill levels if we want wages to increase, not have politicians simply issue…