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Monthly Archives: September 2009
State of Minnesota to raise $131 million by ending agreement with Wisconsin
Recently, the Minnesota Department of Revenue decided to cancel the state’s reciprocity agreement with Wisconsin. As you may have read in our analysis of the Governor’s unallotment plan to balance the state’s FY 2010-11 budget, The Governor’s unallotment plan includes … Continue reading
Posted in Taxes, unallotment
Tagged income taxes, minnesota, reciprocity, unallotment, Wisconsin
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Minnesota sliding backwards in 2000s – income down, poverty up
Over the last few weeks, the U.S. Census has released data showing that Minnesota has been sliding backwards during the current decade. Earlier this month, we blogged about how employer-sponsored health care has declined significantly since 2000-01. Now, new Census data … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty
Tagged Census, health insurance, median household income, minnesota, Poverty
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What kind of state budget deficits lie ahead?
We’ve gotten several questions lately about what kind of deficits the state is anticipating. That’s actually a complicated question, so let’s break it down by biennium. FY 2008-09, the biennium that just ended: Mid-July analysis that took into account the … Continue reading
Federal expansion and simplification of Medicaid could help states
Tucked into the 1,000 page “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″ (H.R. 3200, the House Tri-Committee health reform bill) is a significant simplification of Medicaid that has big implications for expanding access to health care coverage as well as helping … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Budget, Health Care, unallotment
Tagged GAMC, Health Care, health care reform
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Nonprofit scholarships available for Policy Analysis conference…but act fast!
If you are a long-time member of the policy geek world, then you have probably attended the Annual Conference on Policy Analysis sponsored each fall by the Economic Research Group at the University of Minnesota’s College of Continuing Education. If you haven’t … Continue reading
2008 wasn’t such a great year for health insurance, poverty and income
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released numbers looking at health insurance, poverty and income statistics from 2008. The verdict: Not good. In Minnesota, 8.5 percent of people were uninsured in 2007-08, or about one in 12 Minnesotans. Although the percentage of … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Poverty
Tagged Census, CPS, health insurance, median income, Poverty, uninsured
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2008 wasn't such a great year for health insurance, poverty and income
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released numbers looking at health insurance, poverty and income statistics from 2008. The verdict: Not good. In Minnesota, 8.5 percent of people were uninsured in 2007-08, or about one in 12 Minnesotans. Although the percentage of … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Poverty
Tagged Census, CPS, health insurance, median income, Poverty, uninsured
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Assessing the unprecedented use of unallotment
Minnesota is now just over two months into the FY 2010-11 biennium…and the Governor’s unallotment decisions have basically been finalized. So, just how did the Governor come up with $2.7 billion in cuts to bring the state’s budget into balance? … Continue reading
