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"We can say with 95 percent confidence that we are going to need a minimum of 3,000 beds starting in the middle of May." -Gov. Walz, April 8th. Yesterday, there…

You can't turn a normative question into a positive one. The question 'What will be the consequences of choosing Scenario 3?' is a positive one for 'science' to answer. But…

Hello! This week, Isaac Orr is joined by Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely for episode 237 of the In The Tank Podcast. How far away is the…

As COVID-19 infections sweep the nation, a Minnesota law restricting the number of hospital beds in the state isdrawing new scrutiny. Since 1984, the Hospital Construction Moratorium has put an…

In reality, there are a number of things employers can do in response to a minimum wage hike that don’t involve laying off employees.

It turns out that labor demand curves do slope downwards after all.

Last week, the Star Tribune gave Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant space to comment on Saint Paul's proposed $15 minimum wage. Sadly for the Strib's readers, Ms Sawant took the…

A last ditch effort was launched yesterday to save the jobs of untold numbers of employees of small businesses in Minneapolis from the unintended consequences of the $15 minimum wage…

It's often said that the evidence in the minimum wage debate is clear. And it is.

Newly released emails show that Seattle's city council worked with the supposedly independent authors of a study which concluded that its $15 minimum wage had not hurt low paid workers.

Seattle's council has pulled the plug on a minimum wage project because it didn't like the results. The city's low paid will pay the price of educating its ignorant leaders

As price of labor went up, people bought less of it — as standard economic theory predicts. This op-ed appeared June 29, 2017 in the Star Tribune. The Minneapolis City…

Seattle's council commissioned research into the effects of its minimum wage increases. When it didn't like the results, it commissioned some more

Steven Hayward has written about how liberals enjoy hiking cigarette and alcohol taxes so less is consumed but somehow totally fail to understand economic basics like supply and demand and…

The Metropolitan Council (“Met Council”) is an appointed body created by the Minnesota legislature to plan for the growth and delivery of regional services...