MinnEcon Blog

In a lousy economy, more than 70 percent of the Minnesota school districts asking for levy money from voters got it. Why?
A backstop food shelf finds itself helping people in this recession who find themselves hungry for the first time.
Twin Cities housing market on "recovery road"? One broker doesn't see it.
A new grad talks about the uphill battle she and her friends face trying to enter Minnesota's tenuous job market.
Two years since the recession officially began and for many the struggle hasn't ebbed.
Been down so long, the MN jobless rate looks like up to me?