House committee takes action to improve property tax refunds, aids to local...
Efforts to ensure that Minnesotans don’t pay too high a share of their incomes in property taxes took another step forward this week as the House Property and Local Tax Division passed its Division...
View Article10 Ways in 10 Days Five: Invest in Domestic Violence Advocacy
Domestic violence is the painful subject of Day Five of Invest in Minnesota’s 10 Ways in 10 Days campaign. Today’s profile looks at three survivors of domestic violence and how their lives were turned...
View Article10 Ways in 10 Days Six: Invest in Early Childhood Education
Day Six of Invest in Minnesota’s 10 Ways in 10 Days campaign features an Osseo teacher: Gretchen Dullinger is an early childhood education teacher in the Osseo school district. She’s taught in Osseo...
View Article10 Ways in 10 Days Seven: Invest in higher education
Day Seven of Invest in Minnesota’s 10 Ways in 10 Days campaign shows why Minnesota needs to invest in higher education and our future: Justin Lewandowski is 24 years old and lives in Saint Cloud. At...
View Article10 Ways in 10 Days Eight: Invest in Job Training
Today’s 10 Ways in 10 Days story from Invest in Minnesota is about investing in job training: Imagine that you’re the main provider for your wife who has health issues, a brother with physical and...
View ArticleSenate tax priorities start to come into view
Some of the Minnesota Senate’s tax priorities came into clearer focus yesterday when the Senate Tax Reform Division released its draft division report, authored by the committee’s chair, Senator Ann...
View Article10 Ways in 10 Days Nine: Invest in services for homeless youth
Today is Way Nine of Invest in Minnesota’s 10 Ways in 10 Days campaign. It profiles Erich Lutz, who sees the urgency of investing in our youth every day: Erich Lutz has worked with youth experiencing...
View Article10 Ways in 10 Days: Invest in all-day kindergarten
Invest in Minnesota’s 10 Ways in 10 Days campaign wraps up today with a story about the need the invest in all-day kindergarten: Amy teaches kindergarten in Janesville, Minnesota. Although it hasn’t...
View ArticleResearch debunks idea that tax increases prompt the wealthy to leave a state
As Minnesota policymakers consider proposals to increase income taxes on the highest-income households as part of the FY 2014-15 budget, it’s time to put one misconception about taxes to rest. Raising...
View ArticleRepealing the provider tax puts vital health care services at risk
Later today, the Senate Tax Committee is expected to hear Senate File 1034, the Health and Human Services omnibus bill. We strongly support the provision in the bill that takes the fiscally responsible...
View ArticleGovernor Dayton’s budget provides a good framework for final budget legislation
Our priorities for the FY 2014-15 state budget are to raise revenues to resolve the budget deficit and invest in the state’s future prosperity, and reform the tax system to make it less regressive. Our...
View ArticleHigher education budget bills focus on making college affordable
By 2018, Minnesota’s employers are expected to require one of the most highly educated workforces in the nation, with 70 percent of jobs needing some education beyond high school. The House and Senate...
View ArticleE-12 omnibus bills make significant investments in our children
We know a quality school system plays a critical role in a state’s economic success, and making sure that all Minnesota students get a top education should remain a priority. Minnesota cannot reach...
View ArticleHouse omnibus tax bill’s priorities include progressivity and lower property...
As the Legislature passes budget bills to invest in our kids, our workers and our communities, legislators also need to figure out how to fund those investments, address the deficit and share the...
View ArticleHealth and human services omnibus bills make good investments using wrong...
When the House and Senate released their committee targets in March, we were surprised that the health and human services budget division was required to cut $150 million in the House and $153 million...
View ArticleSenate omnibus tax bill shares goals with Governor and House, but differs in...
The Senate omnibus tax bill has similar goals to Governor Dayton’s and the House’s tax proposals: make the state’s tax system less regressive; end the cycle of budget deficits; and fund investments in...
View ArticleGovernor, House and Senate move forward with budget framework in place
As the 2013 Legislative Session quickly draws to a close, the final pieces of the budget are coming into place. Over the weekend, Governor Dayton and House and Senate leaders agreed to a budget...
View ArticleMore details of tax portion of budget framework emerge
Thursday night, legislative leaders and Governor Dayton added some details to the tax portion of the previously announced budget framework, which reduces regressivity of the tax system, funds...
View ArticleTax bill makes strides toward tax fairness, investments in our future
Governor Dayton, the House and Senate all made commitments this year to tax plans that would resolve the state’s budget deficit, fund investments and make the tax system less regressive. They had...
View ArticleJobs, economic development and housing budget bill makes important...
As the 2013 Legislative Session closes, the final budget bills have been passed by the House and Senate. Last week the omnibus jobs, economic development and housing bill (House File 729) received its...
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