For business, grass is greener – here!
Forbes ranked Minnesota second for “Economic Opportunity,” third for “Best Place to Make a Living” and eighth among “Best States for Business.”
View ArticleSmith: Widening inequality is not inevitable
The wisdom of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz.
View ArticleFinding framework for restoring the middle-class dream
Whether through amendment or covenant, lawmakers across the nation are beginning to cobble together a coherent state and national movement not just to reduce inequality between the rich and the poor,...
View ArticleWorkforce training, race equity can be unifying priority for ’15
Those of us on the road and vacationing in Minnesota this summer are seeing more “Help Wanted” and “Get Job Applications Here” signs than we’ve seen in many years.
View ArticleAiming at opportunity gaps in education
Generation Next helps spawn collaboration among metro, rural groups.
View ArticleTo remain competitive, MN must look to middle
Education and training for ‘middle skills’ are critical for the future workforce.
View ArticleIn U.S. schools, we’re all minorities now
The public school picture is quickly beginning to reflect both continued immigration and the fact that non-white births began to exceed white births in 2011.
View ArticleFraser and Quie: Still reaching across the aisle
Al Quie and Don Fraser in their “retirement’’ have been nothing less than full-fledged activists, pushing passionately for policies that advance the nonpartisan causes they believe in.
View ArticleBecoming our brother’s keepers
Nonprofits, agencies and schools are working to improve the odds for black men.
View ArticleDear Winners:
Savor victory, then invest in workforce, early childhood, transportation, and reducing inequality.
View Article‘Left-behinds’ didn’t vote – and results show it
Voters keep changing their minds about who is most likely to end this intractably widening inequality and whether conservatives or progressives might stimulate a broader prosperity.
View ArticleTime to focus on rural education, workforce
Legislators and top partisan political leaders from both sides of the aisle could learn a lot from the Minnesota Rural Education Association’s annual conference.
View ArticleListening closely to kids
Adults and teens learn the value of resilience and relationships as part of the Itasca Area Initiative for Student Success.
View ArticleSummit reveals a workforce equity imperative
Few legislative priorities will matter more in the long run than improving our workforce readiness, equipping workers with the skills and educational attainment that employers seek and that employees...
View ArticleRefreshing tone augurs well for equity
While some pessimists are predicting a return to gridlock and dismissing the happy talk as just that, a few important factors are seriously different, and better, this time around.
View ArticleCreating pathways to the workforce
We ought to consider guaranteeing to all Minnesota youth access to a meaningful postsecondary certificate or degree, with multiple pathways to the most relevant and employable skills and credentials.
View ArticleEvery Hand Joined helps students succeed
Red Wing is aggressively getting its act together for an increasingly diverse and disadvantaged young population, all under the banner of a new organization called Every Hand Joined.
View ArticleWorkforce equity requires top priority
By 2040, about 40 percent of the Twin Cities metropolitan area workforce will be people of color and our state and region will not stay strong economically with racial disparities.
View ArticlePartnerships for ‘our kids’ deserve support
Both the urban neighborhood partnerships and the more regional Greater Minnesota partnerships are each part of much larger national networks that are gaining ground in many states.
View ArticleSome signs of economic fairness emerge from session
Here are some important fronts where progress was made on an equity agenda for Minnesota.
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