Minnesota Lawyer

Minnesota’s enviable but temporary projected budget surplus must be applied first to investing in our increasingly diverse workforce, easily the most important resource on which ...

The bottom-line statistical evidence remains overwhelmingly strong about the advantage to individuals and to the rest of society.

Gov. Mark Dayton, the equivalent to the CEO of Minnesota’s public sector, was refreshingly candid last week in front of all the private-sector CEOs at ...

Minnesota citizens absolutely need more education and skills, particularly in those sectors and fields that are paying the most and growing the fastest.

Imagine a wild-eyed futurist getting up in front of a crowd of Minnesota business and education leaders in 1995, and boldly making these three outlandish predictions.

Here are some important fronts where progress was made on an equity agenda for Minnesota.

Both the urban neighborhood partnerships and the more regional Greater Minnesota partnerships are each part of much larger national networks that are gaining ground in many states.

By 2040, about 40 percent of the Twin Cities metropolitan area workforce will be people of color and our state and region will not stay strong economically with racial disparities.

Red Wing is aggressively getting its act together for an increasingly diverse and disadvantaged young population, all under the banner of a new organization called Every Hand Joined.

We ought to consider guaranteeing to all Minnesota youth access to a meaningful postsecondary certificate or degree, with multiple pathways to the most relevant and employable skills and credentials.