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ENEWS: Greater MSP Equity, Education Partnerships, & Giving Day & Night
Greater MSP Seeking Equity Greater MSP is an ambitious private-public partnership launched almost a decade ago to aggressively promote business location and expansion in the Twin Cities. Growth & Justice over those years has frequently praised its efforts to emphasize diversity and inclusiveness as assets that are conducive to growth. At Greater MSP’s latest annual meeting, equity themes were reinforced with a ... Read More
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ENEWS: Higher Ed Equity Goals, Business Reimagined, Mobile Innovations
Higher Ed Equity Goals Reviewed Growth & Justice has been instrumental over the last decade in convincing the state Legislature to establish specific statewide goals for post-secondary attainment and, more important, to erase the wide racial gaps in college degrees and job-training certificates. A recent MinnPost story offers a clear-eyed assessment of progress toward those goals, noting that overall attainment of an... Read More
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ENEWS: Rapid Climate Change in MN, Equity in Economic Growth, Focus on the Children
Faster Climate Change in Minnesota An important new study and interactive map by the Washington Post shows how Minnesota, particularly our northern regions, are among the places in the United States that have warmed the fastest (by more than 2 degrees Centigrade) over the last century. The trend represents a long-term threat to all of our state but especially to our northern rural economies and ways of life, in myriad ways, from ret... Read More
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ENEWS: SEAT Program Success, Sprouting Solar, Economic Development Chapter
SEAT Program Success This past legislative session Growth & Justice endorsed the Increase Teachers of Color Act – which invests significant resources into attracting, developing, and retaining teachers of color in Minnesota. Recently, MinnPost published an article that clearly shows the importance of these efforts across our state. In an article entitled, “Pipeline to develop ethnic teachers has scholarships, an affinity group, ... Read More
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ENEWS: Human Capital for Business and in Olivia, and the Rural Pulse
Small Biz Owners Call for Human Capital Investment Monday’s Star Tribune featured an op-ed by two small business owners, members of the Main Street Alliance, who made a strong case for an expansive state budget and ample public investments that actually improve the lives of their customers and employees. Growth & Justice has been collaborating with Main Street Alliance in support of policies that build human capital and ec... Read More
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