By the numbers: The schools shift as a schools cut

by Steve Perry
Published: July 8, 2009
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The numbers in the pie chart you see here are all familiar to state budget watchers by now. What’s novel about this particular graphic, produced by the office of Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller (DFL-Minneapolis), is that it casts Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s $1.7 billion "mimic" of a school shift as a de facto spending cut. [...]

Minnesota’s rate of unemployment increases among top 20 in the U.S.: More deficit revisions ahead?

by Steve Perry
Published: March 19, 2009
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One of the principal factors in the revenue shortfall that Minnesota state government is wrestling with at the Legislature is the employment picture: Growing unemployment rates mean fewer people paying income taxes and sales taxes, and that means less money for the general fund. So a lot is riding on the employment assumptions in the [...]

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