MN2020 Reports

Blueprints for Rural Progress: Critical Need for Federal Development Funding
By Lee Egerstrom June 17, 2013
Crumbling Fiscal Foundation: A Decade of Decline in State Investment
By Jeff Van Wychen April 15, 2013
Five Ways Forward: Policy Ideas to Move Minnesota Forward in 2013
By Minnesota 2020 Fellows January 30, 2013
Made in Minnesota 2012: Building Cross-cultural Commerce
By Lee Egerstrom December 18, 2012
Offense Takes the Field for Workers
By Will Nissen November 20, 2012
Wasting Away: Upgrading Minnesota’s Aging Wastewater Infrastructure
By Jeremy Dennison August 21, 2012
Money Talks: Getting a Seat at the Bargaining Table
By Lee Egerstrom June 26, 2012
Sensible Incentives: Enabling Energy Efficiency in Rental Housing
By Will Nissen April 19, 2012
False Choices: The Economic Argument Against Market-Driven Education Reform
By Michael J. Diedrich January 17, 2012
Made in Minnesota 2011: Fertile Ground for Minority Opportunity
By Lee Egerstrom November 15, 2011
Holding Pattern: Problems and Progress in Rural Aviation
By Conrad deFiebre November 03, 2011
Hemorrhaging Homesteads: Projecting 2012 Property Tax Increases
By Matt Entenza October 17, 2011
Declining Funding Degrading Quality
By Katie Douglass August 30, 2011
Foot-Powered Progress
By Conrad deFiebre June 27, 2011
MnSCU: Retooling Minnesota for Recovery
By Valerie Ong June 07, 2011
Cooperatively Moving Minnesota Forward
By Lee Egerstrom April 12, 2011
Minnesota’s Tax Fairness Retreat
By Jeff Van Wychen January 18, 2011
School Funding Declines Projected to Continue
By Jeff Van Wychen January 04, 2011
Safe, Clean and Efficient: Moving Minnesota to Market by Water
By Conrad deFiebre December 16, 2010
Made in Minnesota 2010: Strategies for Growing Sustainable Small Businesses
By Lee Egerstrom November 30, 2010
Stimulated and Growing: Multiplying the Recovery Act’s Minnesota Impact
By Conrad deFiebre November 09, 2010
How Much Funding has the State Cut from Your School?
By Jeff Van Wychen October 05, 2010
The Wrong Way: Minnesota School Transportation Disparities
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow September 14, 2010
Minnesota 2020 Property Tax Report: 2002-2010
By Jeff Van Wychen August 31, 2010
Minnesota Cities: Change in Taxes, Aid and Revenue
By Jeff Van Wychen August 31, 2010
Prosperity Ahead: Sweden’s Past Points Minnesota Forward
By Lee Egerstrom July 20, 2010
Early Childhood Education: Upfront Investment, Lifetime Gain
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow June 29, 2010
Jump Starting Minnesota's Green Economy
By Salman Mitha, PhD, Minnesota 2020 Fellow May 28, 2010
State's K-12 Education Cuts Run Deep
By Jeff Van Wychen April 26, 2010
On Our Way to Average: Ranking Minnesota's Economic Performance
By Jeff Van Wychen January 15, 2010
Greater Minnesota Gets on Board: Transit Ridership Grows While Investment Declines
By Conrad deFiebre December 15, 2009
Made in MN 2009: Homegrown Holidays
By Lee Egerstrom & Katie Mertz, Undergraduate Research Fellow November 20, 2009
Minnesota's School Counseling Crunch
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow September 15, 2009
Checking in on Charter Schools: A Review of 2008 Financial Management Practices
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow September 15, 2009
Best Practices: Minnesota's Highest Value Hospitals
By Kyle R. Bauser, Graduate Research Fellow August 15, 2009
Minnesota's Winds of Progress
By Nathan Paine, Minnesota 2020 Fellow July 15, 2009
Minnesota's Road to Recovery: An Analysis of Transportation Recovery Projects
By Conrad deFiebre June 30, 2009
Checking in on Charter Schools
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow June 15, 2009
Minnesota Property Taxes by the Numbers: 2009 Edition
By Jeff Van Wychen April 20, 2009
Adding Value the Minnesota Farmers' Way
By Lee Egerstrom & Aparna Bhasin, Undergraduate Research Fellow April 15, 2009
Bleeding Communities Dry: How LGA Cuts are Hurting Rural Minnesota
By Jeff Van Wychen March 15, 2009
Stopping the Freefall: Stabilizing Minnesota's Housing Market
By Lee Egerstrom & Larry Buegler March 15, 2009
Boxed in by Bad Policy
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow February 15, 2009
New Fees in the Era of "No New Taxes"
By Jeff Van Wychen January 15, 2009
Made in MN 2008: Boosting Minnesota's Economy in Tough Economic Times
By Lee Egerstrom November 25, 2008
Reconnecting Minnesota: The Case for an Intercity Passenger Rail System
By Conrad deFiebre & Mick Conlan, Graduate Research Fellow October 15, 2008
Where is the School Nurse? - A Survey of Minnesota School Nurses
By John Fitzgerald, Education Policy Fellow September 22, 2008
Food for Thought: Hunger is Bad for Business, Bad for Everyone
By Lee Egerstrom July 30, 2008
Road Report: A Survey of Minnesota's County Highway Engineers
By Conrad deFiebre June 26, 2008
Minnesota's Slip Toward Mediocrity: Less Investment, Less Return
By Jeff Van Wychen June 04, 2008