The Circle of Education Funding is playing out in real life all over the state. Today’s edition finds us in St. Paul where union teachers have authorized a strike that…
Despite the record amount of money that lawmakers poured into child care last legislative session to make it more affordable, signs are appearing that it wasn’t enough to make a…
Labor market Willmar Radio: Minnesota unemployment rate dips below 3% Lakes Area Radio: December Employment Numbers For Minnesota Released Duluth News Tribune: Unusually warm December caused job market changes in…
It’s National School Choice Week — the annual celebration of effective K-12 education options and the school choice policies that allow families the opportunity to access the learning environment that…
Last week, I noted that Minnesota and its neighbors have very different economic policies but very similar employment outcomes. This holds over time. As Figure 1 shows, Minnesota and its…
Labor market Minnesota Reformer: December jobs report: Wages up, hiring steady as job market ends year strong Crow River Media: Rural jobs grew a percentage point in September, but the…
Center of the American Experiment has produced regular reports on Minnesota’s economy since 2016 and these have often included a chart showing the employment ratio (the share of the civilian…
In many ways, 2023 feels like the eye of the hurricane threatening the reliability of the American electric grid. It was the first year since 2019 that rolling blackouts didn’t…
On Tuesday, I wrote about new Census Bureau data for population and components of population change for 2022-2023 and revisions to the data for previous years. I noted that “they…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the international regulatory authority with the mission to ensure the reliability of the electric grid, released the latest version of its…
Last week, the Minnesota Reformer reported that: Data released last week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that Minnesota’s gross domestic product rose by about 0.7% in the second quarter, lagging…
The former DFL state representative from St. Paul’s District 67A owes more than $4,000 in fines and penalties to the state campaign finance regulator (CFB). The agency sued Thompson in…
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post regarding two studies that ranked Minnesota as one of the least free states in the country. I got an interesting response from a…
Last week, the Fraser Institute published its annual Economic Freedom of North America report. The new edition, which looks at data from 2021, ranked Minnesota among the least free states…
The Biden administration’s reckless EPA regulations endanger us all.
An analysis of school district data reveals the dramatic rise in homeschooling prompted by COVID-19 and school closure decisions “has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions…
(And no, they are not using the non-pejorative British definition of scheme, which means a plan or system for doing or organizing something.) In a new attack on educational freedom…
In December last year, I wrote about newly released Census Bureau data which showed that, on net, Minnesota lost more residents to other parts of the United States in 2021-2022…
In June, I wrote that robots are one way to ease Minnesota’s labor shortage. An example comes from across the border in Wisconsin. Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology…
Between 2021 and 2022, Ten states enacted individual income tax rate reductions. Six states enacted corporate income tax rate reductions. Oklahoma became the first state to make permanent the full expensing of…
In this edition of Follow the Money™, we track another member of the Minnesota Ethnic Studies Coalition (METC), Unidos MN. You will recall from our earlier reporting, recently passed legislation…
Minnesota Senior Judge Leslie Metzen threw out trespassing charges against three women, Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin this week concluding, “The charges against these three individuals who were…
In early August, four of the largest electric grid operators in America warned that President Biden’s proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing fossil-fueled power…
I’ve been hesitant to attempt any predictions about potential blackouts on the grid this year because I don’t want to become a Boy Who Cried Wolf. Also, it hasn’t felt…