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By Marnie Werner, Vice President, Research & Operations Click here for a printable version of this report. For a quick summary of this report, click here. Click here for more on what the MN Department of Human Services is doing to help with the child care shortage. Click here for more on the value of ...

By Marnie Werner, VP, Research & Operations Ready for a silver lining? So much of what we hear about the pandemic is doom and gloom, but as a new report we released last month on workforce and job vacancies showed, rural Minnesota is sitting at the crossroads of two important trends that have created a ...

  This week we talk with IRRB Commissioner Mark Phillips about economic development on the Iron Range and the impact of trade tariffs on the iron ore industry.

Thomas Hoff from the Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative in Marshall joins us this week to talk about LYFT Pathways, a program that is re-introducing kids to technical careers like manufacturing and health care by teaming up with businesses in southwestern and south central Minnesota.

EXCERPT: “Jessica Rabe, co-founder of DataTrek Research, analyzed data from Google Trends, a tracker of what people all over the world are searching for. That tool offers what Rabe calls ‘a novel take on a two-speed job market.’ The two speeds, of course, are urban and rural. The most search interest in ‘job openings’ comes from southern or ...

We meet up again with DEED labor analyst Luke Greiner to talk about jobs in Southwest Minnesota, where there are more jobs available than people to fill them. As Luke points out, not all the well-paying jobs are in the metro.

One of the first bills introduced in the 2003 Minnesota Legislative session was H.F. 3, creating what is now known as rural Job Opportunity Building Zones, or JOBZ. Announced after its passage as Gov. Tim Pawlentyʼs “marquee” rural economic development initiative, the program partitioned most of the state outside of the seven-county metropolitan area into ...

In our 2001 survey, 11 percent of rural, non-retired residents reported that while they are currently employed full-time, they would prefer holding a job that better fits their skills and education. Further, the study estimates that more than one out of every five rural workers would be a good candidate for work force development efforts. ...