Other Policy Issues
Includes civil service issues, government redesign, price of government,
and a host of other topics which are intimately connected to tax
and fiscal policy debates.
A new economic tracking tool using real time data from the private sector offers insights into what is happening now in the economy, what impact policies are and are not having, and how Minnesota’s economic experience to date differs from the nation as a whole.
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At the same time COVID is bringing the state economy to its knees, state employee contracts are up for ratification requiring an uncomfortable vote. The numbers are getting all the attention, but from a policy standpoint it’s the distribution of those increases that deserves more consideration.
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Until Minnesota government takes other workforce issues as seriously as its fixation with internal equity, trying to get and retain necessary talent in government is doomed to be an increasingly expensive exercise in frustration while recent high-profile agency embarrassments become more common.
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