The U.S. Department of Labor stretched out job-training and other services to workers at the idled Mesabi Nugget plant, in Hoyt Lakes and Chisholm, for up to 130 weeks.

Minnesota's general fund received $2.735 billion in revenue in the last two months of 2009, which was $1.5 million less than forecast, according to the January economic update from the Minnesota Department of Management and Budget.

The wretched economy is laying waste not only to the state’s general fund budget, but its unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund as well.  At the ...

The wretched economy is laying waste not only to the state’s general fund budget, but its unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund as well.  At the ...

The wretched economy is laying waste not only to the state’s general fund budget, but its unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund as well.  At the ...