Ranked 44th out of 50, "Minnesota ranks uncompetitively on the Index and is held back by its graduated state individual income tax with a top rate of 9.85 percent, among the highest in the country," according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. Each year, the Tax Foundation's 'State Tax Competitiveness Index" compares each state on more than 150 variables in the five major areas of taxation …
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Last year, Minnesota paid $4.32 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to the 14 programs now identified as being a high risk for fraud — more than double what it paid in 2021. As more reimbursements have been finalized, a KARE 11 data practices request reveals the total since 2018 is $20 billion — even more than the astonishing $18 billion former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson revealed in …
Seven years after Faye Bernstein first blew the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse concerns, “nothing is changing” at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, she told lawmakers during an April 7 hearing at the state Capitol in St. Paul. As a 20-year employee who still works for the department while facing alleged demotion and retaliation over her complaints, “I still see a reckless …
