Category: Videos

Interconnected: An update on Minnesota’s child care challenges

The Center for Rural Policy & Development and the Citizens League are excited to continue our discussions on topics important to both rural and urban audiences. In February 2021, the Center for Rural Policy & Development released a report looking at the state of child care in Greater Minnesota. That report examined why it’s harder to ...

Declining rural newspapers? – Research webinar

  Our latest research report explores the decline of newspapers in rural MN and how this affects civic engagement. This one-of-a-kind report explores this important topic and gives ideas to strengthen rural newspapers and civic engagement. You can read the report here. On Wednesday, May 3rd, Marnie Webinar provided highlights from the report and had ...

Shedding light on the education formula – research overview

  The Center for Rural Policy and Development were presented with a question – if you only increase one piece of the education formula, does it benefit certain types of schools more than others? In this presentation, Kelly Asche, Senior Researcher, presents an overview of a report that provides an answer to this question. The ...

What’s Happening in Greater Minnesota? – Part 3: Workforce shortages

The Center for Rural Policy and Development partnered with Sourcewell to produce short videos discussing our most recent research. In Part 3, Kelly Asche discusses the historically low unemployment rates as well as the drop in the number of people participating in the labor force during the pandemic, and how this has impacted job vacancies.

What’s Happening in Greater Minnesota? – Part 2: Child care shortages

The Center for Rural Policy and Development partnered with Sourcewell to produce short videos discussing our most recent research. In Part 2, Marnie Werner discusses the challenges facing child care in rural Minnesota and provides a brief overview of some of the solutions being developed by local organizations.