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MinnEcon Blog

Student loans: A family burden?

The cascading effects of rising student debt.
by Paul Tosto

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Slow motion job growth pain

The jobs bounce back from this Great Recession is dramatically slower than the last Great Recession of the 1980s.
by Paul Tosto

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What’s your May economic forecast?

What's your household economic forecast? Drop us a line and make our reporting smarter.
by Paul Tosto

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Long road from college to a job

Happy ending on a new grad job search. Is it a path for others?
by Paul Tosto

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Good signs in a summer jobs program?

Minneapolis sees applications drop for its popular summer jobs programs. A good economic sign?
by Paul Tosto

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Goodbye, entry level job?

No experience? The odds of you finding a job worsened dramatically in 2010.
by Paul Tosto

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Is the temp work boom permanent?

We shouldn't worry about temp jobs staying at a permanently high level. Yet.
by Paul Tosto

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Minnesota’s economy from the bakery window

Minnesota’s economy from the bakery window

Cold Spring Bakery in Cold Spring, Minn. has been open for over 60 years and Lynn Schurman has worked there for nearly 40 of them. Lynn is the co-owner of the bakery along with her husband and brother-in-law and she was kind enough to take a break from her busy day to tell me how her business if faring these days. Here are three key insights she shared with me:
by Molly Bloom

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Underwater gloom

More than one in five Minnesota houses with a mortgage is underwater or near underwater.
by Paul Tosto

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