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Middle Class Fighting for Crumbs
If you recall childhood experiences with sharing, like splitting a cookie with four friends, one would almost always have to settle for crumbs. This…
Demographic Changes’ Impact on Early Childhood Education
Education achievement gaps across races and economic strata are a problem throughout the country and, despite a high overall education ranking, Minnesota is no…
More Dangerous, More Costly: An Analysis of Transportation Outsourcing
Download full report (pdf) View online at Scribd Contrary to popular belief, outsourced school transportation services generally have weaker safety records and are more…
Beyond Educational Isolation: Do We Work Together or Fight Each Other?
Here’s my attempt at an appropriately Thanksgiving-related hook. This is a holiday stereotypically fraught with contradictions. What is billed as a holiday about coming…
The Sun Drives Economic Development in Minnesota
Minnesotans are squinting up at the sun and leaning into the wind in efforts to link their pocketbooks and the natural environment to benefit…
Discussion: First a Super Bowl, Then a World’s Fair!
From the MLB All-Star game to a youth soccer tournament to a dog show, public events, performances and gatherings are both entertainment and economic…
College Debts Hold Back Economic Recovery; Need Assistance
Rising college debts are holding back recovery in the housing markets while housing costs converge with college debts to also hold back recovery for…
A Decade of School Funding Cuts Reversed
Download report (pdf) View online at Scribd After a decade of cuts in real (i.e., inflation adjusted) per pupil state support for K-12 education,…
Lost in the Noise: An All-Payer System
Since 2008, health care reform has been the subject of contentious political debate. Everybody has a fix, be it a public insurance option, the…
To Minnesota: A Warning from Kazakhstan
In today's installment of environmental op-eds from Macalester College students, we examine what Minnesota can learn from one of last century's worst natural resource…