Tag: unemployment
member name: Paul Tosto
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February 26, 2009 11:07 AM EST --
Not getting better on the unemployment front.
Minnesota's jobless rate hit 7.6 percent in January , up from 6.9 percent in December, state officials announced this morning. MPR News has a . . .
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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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March 30, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
This is a bad recession for Minnesota. And if you're age 30 or younger you're probably sick of hearing how it was harder way back when. But when it comes to employment, at least, 1981 was tougher. . . .
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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 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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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 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 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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May 08, 2009 02:22 PM EDT --
There's an old saying about never talking politics with family or friends. Too problematic. But how about hiring them to work for you?
I wondered about that after hearing from John Snell, who . . .
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May 14, 2009 11:51 AM EDT --
My dad lost his job for several weeks when I was little. I found this out years later. Didn't strike me then that anything was wrong. Dad was just home. My parents didn't talk about the financial . . .
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July 02, 2009 10:48 AM EDT --
Melissa Hill's been unemployed since February. But she has a plan to change that: Run for Minneapolis City Council.
A source in our Public Insight Network , Hill wrote us recently:
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July 20, 2009 08:15 PM EDT --
We've been keeping tabs on the f ate of an Army project crucial to hundreds of jobs at a Fridley plant. The latest news isn't great.
Boeing Co., the main contractor in the development of . . .
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March 25, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
The Red River floods in the spring. This year's floods are bad and people in northwest Minnesota are once again toughing it out.
They are resilient folks. But, geez, could another once-a-century . . .
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June 10, 2009 03:43 PM EDT --
Last time we posted on the Federal Reserve's Beige Book report on current economic conditions, we noted The Fed saw some glimmers that the economic turmoil in the Upper Midwest may be bottoming . . .
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June 15, 2009 02:36 PM EDT --
Recessions can trigger desperate behavior. But are otherwise relatively well-off people starting to use the hard times simply to score free food?
Yes, says Michael Gmitter, pastor and director . . .
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October 02, 2009 02:05 PM EDT --
I'm conditioned to believe everyone wants to come to Minnesota and that even in a lousy economy the economic opportunities are better here. Maybe that perception's wrong.
I'm wondering after looking . . .
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April 09, 2009 10:42 PM EDT --
Looking for upside in the economy is a noble quest these days. So it's worth noting that Minnesota looked pretty good relative to other states in today's new jobless claims data .
In the . . .
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May 29, 2009 11:33 AM EDT --
As we experiment with ideas and approaches at MinnEcon, I wanted to let you know the insights that you share with us are not just grist for our MinnEcon maps or for our posts.
Some of . . .
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April 01, 2009 02:24 PM EDT --
St. Cloud and Duluth are the Minnesota metro areas struggling the most with unemployment. New U.S. Department of Labor data show these unemployment rates for February:
Duluth: 9.8 %
St. . . .
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April 14, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
Minnesota's unemployment rate for March comes out Thursday and the odds are it will not be great. It hit 8.1 percent in February , catching up with the national rate and probably rose in . . .
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