Minnesota added 11,200 jobs in July and reached a 3 percent unemployment rate.
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As one state department will fund efforts to help people with disabilities overcome work and life challenges, two other departments will fund public water infrastructure, and food and agriculture projects.
University of St. Thomas business school graduate students examined barriers for people with disabilities face in gaining employment.
A special report on how the city is building its future as a global health and wellness destination.
As the rural economy has evolved, so too has the University of Minnesota Extension, the public agency charged with “extending” the university’s expertise and knowledge into every corner of the state.
Records show the state has gained 2.9 million jobs.
Brainerd, Willmar and Warroad are among the cities set to benefit from the grants, which come from a federally-funded program to help small communities rebuild.
The state has slid consistently over the years from its first place ranking in 2015.
Two years after participating in the business growth program, Minneapolis-based quality control and monitoring software company Inspectorio attracts top companies in fundraising round.
Since 2000, Barnesville has been attracting new residents at a steady pace, growing 18 percent to today's population of about 2,500. Many have easy commutes to jobs in Fargo-Moorhead, just 25 miles away.
State data shows the more than 6,000 employees laid off in the first five months of the year surpassed those affected in the same period of 2015, 2016, 2017, and all of 2014.
Minnesota joins New York as just the second location for the Jackpocket app.
The five businesses across Minnesota will use a total of $706,000 in state funding to help grow their companies, with a collective commitment to consequently add 131 total jobs.
The more than 10,000 jobs added throughout the state in May brought the unemployment rate to a milestone mark of 3.1 percent.
The state has added only 1,900 jobs in first four months of 2018.
Nineteen companies from the North Star State now populate the annual list ranking businesses by revenue.
The unemployment rate was stagnant, remaining at 3.2 percent for the third consecutive month.
On the heels of Nicollet Mall’s restoration, the 45-year-old plaza outside Orchestra Hall is next in line for a much-needed renovation.