Minnesota’s Economic News — W/E 5/17/24
State and local taxes and spending NFIB: Minnesota Paid Leave Price Tag Skyrockets – Again Minnesota Reformer: DEED says Minnesota paid leave program will start with 25% higher payroll tax…
State and local taxes and spending NFIB: Minnesota Paid Leave Price Tag Skyrockets – Again Minnesota Reformer: DEED says Minnesota paid leave program will start with 25% higher payroll tax…
As we close out another week of the trial in Minneapolis, prosecutors have featured many of the (alleged) ill-gotten gains of the free-food scheme. A survey of recent headlines: ‘The…
On Wednesday, I wrote that the payroll tax imposed to fund Minnesota’s new Paid Family and Medical leave (PFML) program will be 37% higher in 2027 than when it was…
This piece was originally published at Independent Women’s Forum on May 13, 2024. Read more here: https://www.iwf.org/2024/05/13/jpmorgan-report-carbon-free-energy-transition-needs-reality-check/ A recent report from JPMorgan Chase warns that moving away from fossil fuels…
Bloomington’s Dar Al Farooq has come up numerous times in the current trial underway in Federal court in Minneapolis. Seven defendants associated with the non-closed Shakopee restaurant Empire Cuisine are…
This time Duluth school strategists thought they did everything right leading up to the $52 million technology levy dubbed Future Forward presented to voters. Slick website, numerous community listening sessions,…
In May last year, I wrote that nobody really knows how much Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical leave (PFML) scheme is going to cost, with the estimated costs of the…
On Jan. 5, 2024, Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman approved the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) controversial K-12 social studies standards, which have generated public outcry for three years. He…
In the dying days of the 2024 legislative session in St. Paul, state Democrats are looking to reinstate a solar power subsidy recently scaled back by the Public Utilities Commission…
In a move rarely seen, a local teachers’ union has “expelled” one of its members. Rochester school district student counselor Christina Barton (who voiced concern over transgender and gender-expansive administrative…
Driving down Lake Street in South Minneapolis on May 16, 2024.
Buckle up! The first trial in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal is set to begin Monday, April 22, 2024 and Bill Glahn is breaking down all the details in…
The chaos of illegal immigration is starting to show up in Minneapolis as newly arrived immigrants from the Southern border line up daily in Minneapolis looking for work. But without…
The Circle of Education Funding in Minneapolis Public Schools is starting to look and act like a spiral. Overspending on the last teacher contract has caused two years of budget…