With the DFL solidly in control of state government in 2013 for the first time since 1986, and labor’s enthusiasm for wage hikes, minimum wage policy appears likely to get a rewrite. Before liberal policymakers impose strict new wage mandates on employers, they should consider the effect a new state-mandated wage hike would have on the very Minnesotans it ostensibly is intended to help. Click …
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Minnesota’s Vaccination Problem
There is a growing epidemic in America when it comes to vaccines — an epidemic of fear borne of misinformation and junk science. Americans live in an era that rapidly embraces technological advances in nearly every other scientific field of discovery except, perhaps, the most important one: medical science. Once eradicated childhood diseases are making a deadly comeback and their occurrence tends …
Issue Backgrounder: Public and Private Sector Compensation in Minnesota
In an era of economic distress - high unemployment, perennial state budget deficits, soaring property taxes - it is not only appropriate, but necessary, for state and local government to acknowledge the economic realities facing its taxpayers, and to control spending accordingly. Considering that approximately half of the $2.2 trillion that state and local governments spend annually in the U.S. is …
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