Times getting tougher for Minnesota workers
Minneapolis Labor Review From Wall Street to Main Street, news reports and new economic statistics reflect an economy in increasingly serious trouble."…[W]e are facing a financial crisis as profound...
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Finding comfort away from Halloween, elections, and market fright
Minnesota 2020 It's three days to Halloween, a week until the elections, and declarations of national and global recessions seem to be moments away. But if you live in Minnesota, you need not hide...
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Economic snapshot for November 2008
The U.S. economy is settling into a deep trough that will likely worsen before it improves. The labor market continues to weaken at an accelerated pace, families are looking at trillions of dollars in...
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Teens speak out on economic downturn
"I had to quit the team.""We moved from a house with six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a big kitchen, a nice large living room, and a great front, back and side yard to a two-room, one-bathroom apartment...
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“Shockingly awful” and “spectacularly grim” job figures
Mary Turck TC Daily Planet "This is a terrible time to be a parent of young adult children," my friend told me at lunch in St. Paul a few weeks ago. "You tell them to study hard and work hard to get...
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Recession taking toll on Minnesota’s poor
Minnesota Independent The economy is in the toilet. Anyone not locked in a basement bathroom for the last six months will have noticed the daily cascade of mass layoffs, cratering stock prices and...
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Mary TurckDownbeat goes on"Who'll stop the pain?"asks Paul Krugman, but finds no answer as a meeting of bankers at the Federal Reserve predicts high unemployment through the end of 2011. Krugman says...
View ArticleState’s employers cut payrolls to weather recession
Workday Minnesota In late January, International Paper, the world’s largest pulp and paper company, announced plans to shutter its Roseville plant. At the time, the container-board production facility...
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Minnesota food shelves give more, need more this year
mbaran TC Daily Planet Demand at local food shelves skyrocketed in the past year, as more Minnesotans face layoffs and job insecurity.Graph from Hungers Solutions reportVisits to metro area food...
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Minnesota social service agencies trying to do more with less
Mary TurckGraph from United Way SurveyMore clients, more issues, more stress, and more "intense" issues, with less resources, lower budgets and no prospects for better days - that's the report from a...
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