Tag: recession
member name: Paul Tosto
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September 24, 2009 09:05 AM EDT --
Here's a look at what we're looking at this morning.
From Minnesota Public Radio News
Gov. Tim Pawlenty is downplaying warnings that Minnesota's state budget will face a significant . . .
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April 17, 2009 12:35 AM EDT --
Annie Baxter drew a detailed picture of Minnesota's unemployment situation in her fine story and MinnEcon post . I just wanted to follow up with a few more quick thoughts.
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April 24, 2009 05:36 PM EDT --
What's the best Recession Rock? Lots of good choices -- but forget anything out of the current recession!
That's my take. The New York Times Freakanomics blog has a little contest going this week . . .
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March 25, 2009 05:47 PM EDT --
We're told that if we don't start spending and stop saving soon, we'll make the economy even worse. But is anyone really buying that (pun intended)?
Talk to your friends and neighbors . . .
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April 20, 2009 10:47 AM EDT --
When someone describes their current economic outlook as "bright" these days, it's worth a deeper look.
Chris Erickson of Minneapolis saw it as bright after recently discovering the . . .
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May 04, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
Lose your job. Seek unemployment benefits. That's how most of us understand the drill.
The reality is if you're still employed but seeing your hours cut significantly, you need to apply . . .
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May 11, 2009 04:23 PM EDT --
We're always on the lookout for unusual economic indicators. So Jeane Nelson of Monticello got me thinking when she wrote in to tell us that she and her husband were planning to get rid of their . . .
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May 12, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
You work hard for years to score your dream job. Then comes one of the worst recessions ever. Suddenly, you discover the hard way the economy considers your dream job "non-essential."
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June 01, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
Is higher education the next financial bubble ready to burst?
Tuition and fees at community colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin are among the highest of any state in the nation . And tuition . . .
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September 22, 2009 05:18 PM EDT --
We talked recently about anecdotal evidence that Minnesota's economy may be turning around. So, OK, here's the other side: Data show the state remains weak relative to most of its neighbors . . . .
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March 23, 2009 10:59 AM EDT --
It's $800 billion of love, right? The massive federal stimulus package is supposed to bring more than $4 billion in new spending to Minnesota. Projects are already laid out for greater Minnesota . . .
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March 23, 2009 06:20 PM EDT --
We've been asking people in our Public Insight Network about bonuses, how they're used in local companies and how important they are to Minnesotans who aren't executives.
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March 24, 2009 04:43 PM EDT --
We always think we'll never move back to our parents' house. Graduate from school, find work, support ourselves and live independently. That's how it's supposed to work.
Of course, . . .
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March 26, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
The U.S. Gross Domestic Product fell 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, the Commerce Department reported this morning.
That's bad but not as bad as the 6.6 percent decline . . .
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March 26, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
If consumers don't feel good about the economy, they don't spend. And if they don't spend, companies that sell stuff get very nervous. We should get a good read Friday on how consumers are . . .
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March 30, 2009 05:26 PM EDT --
Kids going to camp is one of those classic rites of summer. But could it be one of the casualties of the recession?
One of our Public Insight Network folks told us recently that he just got laid . . .
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April 01, 2009 11:52 AM EDT --
I posted recently about the high unemployment rates in some of the Minnesota counties that border the Red River and have been fighting record floods. Now we're seeing stories about what's . . .
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April 02, 2009 09:00 AM EDT --
1.) Will Minnesota lose another 30,000 jobs by October? Creighton University's Economic Outlook project thinks so. The group's newest report says Minnesota lost about 82,000 jobs from . . .
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April 06, 2009 10:39 AM EDT --
Saving, spending and the right thing to do. That's a continuing theme here at MinnEcon. We're being told constantly, it seems, how i t's our duty to spend to help the economy . Now comes . . .
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April 13, 2009 07:05 PM EDT --
In this economy, we are all saving as much as we can, paying down debt and becoming more frugal. That's a theme we hear regularly as we talk about the economy in Minnesota. As economic watchers wait . . .
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