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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Economy

Jack Welch’s thin skin

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 9, 2012, 12:44 PM Oct 9, 2012
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The more Jack Welch talked about his unemployment rate conspiracy, the sillier he looked.

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The half-empty unemployment report

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 5, 2012, 11:14 AM Oct 5, 2012
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If the Obama administration cooked the numbers in the unemployment report, it did a fairly bad job of it.

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How bad are things? People ready to go to work for company that fired them

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 11:39 AM Sep 17, 2012
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Forty-five percent of laid-off workers say they’d go back to work for the company that dumped them, a Temple University study says.

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Home ownership no longer defines ‘middle class’

Paul TostoPaul Tosto August 31, 2012, 3:31 PM Aug 31, 2012

No doubt that people in their 20s and 30s don’t view home ownership like the generations before them — as the symbol of making it in middle class America.

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Our historically bad economy in 2 charts

Paul TostoPaul Tosto August 31, 2012, 12:47 PM Aug 31, 2012
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Two charts offer a sobering view on just how historically bad the economy’s been and continues to be.

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‘What would you do if you lost your job right now?’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 30, 2012, 2:54 PM Aug 30, 2012
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This latest in a series of short interviews with Americans by CBS pretty well peels through all the politics of a president campaign and gets right to the real issue facing millions of Americans: Nobody seems to have a good answer to one person’s question.

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Farewell to the Coke bottle

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 30, 2012, 1:40 PM Aug 30, 2012
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A Winona bottler, the last to put Coke in 6 oz., bottles, gives up.

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Economic segregation increasing even as racial segregation eases

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2012, 12:05 PM Aug 1, 2012

Is there economic diversity where we live? A new study questions why economic segregation is increasing.

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Minneapolis lights up housing scene

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 31, 2012, 1:05 PM Jul 31, 2012

For a region that looked like a real estate mutt for much of the last year or so, the Minneapolis area is suddenly on the upswing when it comes to the resale value of homes.

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Long-term jobless numbers swell in ‘recovery’

Paul TostoPaul Tosto July 25, 2012, 9:28 AM Jul 25, 2012
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It’s hard to remember but the economic recovery began officially three years ago. While it’s a positive that the most recent data show Minnesota adding jobs, those numbers mask at least one seriously troubling trend: The number of Minnesotans out of work for more than a year has skyrocketed during the “recovery.” According to the Read more →

How unready are we for retirement?

Paul TostoPaul Tosto July 23, 2012, 1:07 PM Jul 23, 2012
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It’s quite a day. The market’s tanking because it’s expensive for Spain to borrow. The New York Times is launching a new project digging into middle class decline. It’s only a short stroll, then, to some grim, newly published data showing many of the folks near retirement have little savings beyond Social Security. The Schwartz Read more →

Frac sand mining benefits below the radar

Paul TostoPaul Tosto July 23, 2012, 9:14 AM Jul 23, 2012
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It’s hard to have a discussion about long term stability when there are needed jobs being created and big money to be made in the short-term.

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Weather

The ‘flash drought’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 18, 2012, 2:55 PM Jul 18, 2012

There are plenty of good reasons to root for corn.

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Regional history

Death of the small-town grocery store

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2012, 11:26 AM Jul 16, 2012
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Truman needs another Nick Graham.

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Can cities and suburbs ever get along?

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2012, 1:12 PM Jun 28, 2012
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Now that we’ve settled the health care issue, we can turn to the war between people who live in the ‘burbs vs. those who live in the city.

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