Rep. Tom Emmer on the rise in Washington and winning friends...
WASHINGTON — Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer peered over the shoulders of his fellow GOP lawmakers to get a glimpse of President Donald Trump.
It was...
Danger zone: Work is safer than it used to be, but...
Work-related illness and injuries in Minnesota reached all-time lows in 2018, but experts are concerned about persistently high injury rates in risky industries like...
271,000 Minnesota households pay more than 30% of their income in...
Just one in four households that are eligible for rental assistance actually get it.
When the state’s three largest housing agencies opened up their waiting...
Rep. Betty McCollum’s effort to stop Twin Metals mine near Boundary...
WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration pushes to allow mining near Minnesota’s iconic Boundary Waters, Rep. Betty McCollum is waging an attempt to thwart...
3,000 HealthPartners workers prepared to strike over their own health care
More than 1,800 nurses and other medical care workers at HealthPartners could vote to strike next week if they don't reach a new contract...
What happens in Minnesota if Obamacare gets struck down by the...
At least 300,000 Minnesotans may lose health coverage if the Affordable Care Act is overturned, which is the entirely possible outcome of a lawsuit...
Here’s how the pay of CEOs of Minnesota’s biggest companies compares...
CEO pay at Minnesota’s Fortune 500 companies was 278 times more on average than the pay of median workers at their companies in 2018,...
Measuring progress among black Americans since Dr. King’s death
On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers.
Back then, over a half century...
The most in demand jobs in Minnesota don’t pay enough to...
Of the 10 most in-demand jobs in Minnesota right now, only half pay the $15 an hour needed to meet the basic costs of...