Wisconsinites around the state are experiencing sticker shock when they open their electric bills because monopoly utility companies like We Energies have been raising their prices of electricity like crazy.…
On housing and child care, Minnesotans face higher costs than many other Americans. In 2019, the average Minnesota family paid over $16,000 to keep a child at a day care…
Today, American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr will join Congressman Tom Tiffany in Chippewa Falls, WI as he reintroduces legislation known as the Future Agriculture Retention and Management Act of…
Some 80 percent of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce’s members already offer paid family leave to employees. Yet Gov. Tim Walz and DFL legislators plan to impose a new $1…
When he announced his $65.2 billion two-year “One Minnesota” budget, a 26% increase from the current two-year budget, Gov. Walz claimed that it will “lower costs, cut taxes, and improve…
Last week I joined my former colleague H. Sterling Burnett on The Heartland Institute’s daily podcast. We chat about how zero-emission energy mandates are undermining grid reliability and substantially increasing…
Governors across the country are taking steps to prevent TikTok[JS1] from being used or downloaded on government-owned devices. TikTok poses a grave threat to the data on these devices and…
In 2015, Hennepin County seized Geraldine Tyler’s Minneapolis condo “over about $2,300 of unpaid property taxes, plus $12,700 in penalties, interest and fees.” The county sold the condo for $40,000…
The teacher union landscape in Wisconsin changed dramatically following the passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 budget repair bill, more commonly known as Act 10. Union recertification elections restored workplace…
A year ago yesterday, I wrote that: New Census Bureau population data show that Minnesota’s population grew by just 225 people in 2021. One particularly alarming aspect of this was a loss of…
More states every week take action to ban the controversial Chinese app TikTok on state government phones and devices due to security concerns over the vulnerability of state and private…
Teacher shortages are hardly new, but recently it has been described as a national problem. Is it? Given that there is no real national consensus on how to define a…
Grid monitors warn that the electricity system that serves Minnesota and 14 other states, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), is at a high risk of blackouts, and this threat…
The news that Minnesota’s state government is forecast to run a budget surplus of $17.6 billion in the 2024-2025 biennium prompted some to ask where all that money came from.…
While writing a recent post about how Minnesota’s economic growth is below average, I was struck by the diverging post-COVID-19 growth rates of our neighbors. As Figure 1 shows, from…
Minnesota’s public school open enrollment options fall short, according to a new Reason Foundation report by Jude Schwalbach that ranked all 50 states’ K-12 open enrollment laws. Open enrollment policies…
Nowadays, private companies like Zillow produce data which can help inform policymakers as much as data produced by more traditional, mostly government, sources. LinkedIn is an example. The social network…
Center of the American Experiment continues its nation-leading efforts to educate Americans about the high cost of weather-dependent energy sources. In our latest report, we calculate the high costs of…
Minnesota’s state labor policies continue to undermine worker and taxpayer rights, according to a recent report on public-sector labor laws by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report gave Minnesota a “D”…
In March 2020, COVID-19 hit Minnesota. State and local governments enacted several measures intended to slow the spread of the virus, chief among these being “lockdowns” of individuals and shutdowns…
American Experiment’s campaign to persuade Xcel Energy and the Public Utilities Commission to delay the retirement of Unit 2 at the Sherburne County Generating Station (Sherco) is gaining steam. Make…
The Biden Administration is undermining the reliability of the grid again. This time, he has sought to delay the construction of a new natural gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin, that…
Did you know that solar facilities are subsidized to the tune of almost $50,000 per acre? Here is how the math works. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a…
While our legislature continues to argue on whether to have a special session, more states continue to offer much-needed tax relief. North Dakota is yet to be the latest. According…