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Greater Minnesota Gets on Board: Transit Ridership Grows While Investment Declines

Unbeknownst to many Minnesotans, public transit is an important lifeline for people in Greater Minnesota, especially growing populations of elderly, low-income and the disabled. It enjoys strong pu...
  • mn2020 published this 12 / 15 / 2009
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Made in MN 2009: Homegrown Holidays

It's the time of year when people gather for holiday parties and receptions and to entertain. That means it is also time for Minnesota 2020 to renew its "buy local" campaign for the third year. A s...
  • mn2020 published this 11 / 18 / 2009
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Checking in on Charter Schools: A Review of 2008 Financial Management Practices

Some of Minnesota's charter schools have a financial management and accountability problem. A Minnesota 2020 examination of the financial audits for all charter schools filed for the 2007-2008 scho...
  • mn2020 published this 11 / 09 / 2009
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Minnesota's School Counseling Crunch

How kids are caught between shrinking investment & increasing demand on their counselors.
  • mn2020 published this 08 / 31 / 2009
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Best Practices - Minnesota's Highest Value Hospitals

Minnesotans don’t have to sacrifice health care quality in order to control costs; however, for the state’s hospitals and medical centers to continue delivering high-quality health care at an effic...
  • mn2020 published this 08 / 12 / 2009
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Minnesota's Winds of Progress

When placed in the most optimal location, with the proper investment, research and development, wind farms can create thousands of jobs, revive the economic base of many Minnesota communities hit h...
  • mn2020 published this 07 / 17 / 2009
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Minnesota's Road to Recovery: An Analysis of Transportation Recovery Projects

Creaky old timber bridges are being replaced. Rough roads are getting new pavement. Deteriorating regional airport runways are being rehabbed. Twin Cities transit riders will hop on new diesel-sipp...
  • mn2020 published this 06 / 29 / 2009
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Checking in on Charter Schools - An Examination of Charter School Finances

The first charter schools opened in Minnesota in 1992. In 2007, 28,034 students were enrolled in 145 charter schools. They receive $10,500 in taxpayer funds per student. A check of charter school a...
  • mn2020 published this 06 / 01 / 2009
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Minnesota FY 2003 & FY 2010 School District Aid, Levy, and Revenue

Minnesota FY 2003 & FY 2010 School District Aid, Levy, and Revenue
  • mn2020 published this 05 / 04 / 2009
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Adding Value the Minnesota Farmers' Way

Aparna Bhasin, a Macalester College senior and an undergraduate research fellow at Minnesota 2020, researched and wrote the accompanying report, Adding Value the Minnesota Farmers’ Way, to provide ...
  • mn2020 published this 04 / 20 / 2009
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Minnesota Property Taxes by the Numbers: 2009 Edition

Since 2002, Minnesota property taxes, in general, and homeowner property taxes, in particular, have increased rapidly. The cause of the statewide growth in property taxes is not growth in local go...
  • mn2020 published this 04 / 16 / 2009
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Minnesota 2009 Budget Balancing Options

Possible revenue options to balance Minnesota's budget deficit
  • mn2020 published this 04 / 13 / 2009
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Estimated Change in Minnesota State Sales Tax Revenue Resulting from Various Changes to Sales Tax B

Estimated Change in Minnesota State Sales Tax Revenue Resulting from Various Changes to Sales Tax Base and Rates updated based on 2009 February forecast projections
  • mn2020 published this 04 / 02 / 2009
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Bleeding Communities Dry: How LGA Cuts are Hurting Rural Minnesota

No group of Minnesotans are more qualified to comment on the challenges of delivering public services during a period of diminishing resources than our state's city mayors. Minnesota 2020, in part...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 23 / 2009
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Stopping the Freefall: Stabilizing Minnesota's Housing Market

Credit markets have dried up. Federal recovery dollars are not reaching homeowners and potential homebuyers on the ground. Consumers and lenders are afraid to invest in homeownership when the marke...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 20 / 2009
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Moving Forward: The Benefit of Transportation Investment to Minnesota’s Economy

On April 30, 1988, Minnesota made its last significant, sustained investment in transportation infrastructure – a 3-cents-a-gallon increase in the state gasoline tax that is dedicated solely to roa...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 18 / 2009
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Reconnecting Minnesota: The Case for an Intercity Passenger Rail System

How did the flood of immigrants who built Minnesota in the 1800s get here? Few came by riverboat or covered wagon. Most of them rode the railroad. In our time, the airplane and automobile have l...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 18 / 2009
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Road Report: A Survey of Minnesota's County Highway Engineers

Despite sharp increases in property taxes for transportation, the condition of most county roads and bridges across Minnesota has deteriorated in recent years, a new Minnesota 2020 survey of county...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 18 / 2009
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No Child Left Behind: The Teachers' Voice

No Child Left Behind is a federal law that requires states to test students and hold schools accountable for student scores. The law, passed in 2002 and up for reauthorization in 2008, is roundly d...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 18 / 2009
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Boxed in by Bad Policy

There are about 1,800 principals in Minnesota. Each oversees a school that has been affected by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. While NCLB was created in Washington D.C., it has permea...
  • mn2020 published this 03 / 18 / 2009
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