Wednesday, March 6, 2013

03/06 - MinnPost article by MetroState Faculty Member

You may be interested in this MinnPost article by Metro State Faculty member Matt Filner
, Co-Chair of the IFO Government Relations Committee.

"Why Higher Taxes on the Wealthy is Good for Business."  
 

 

Monday, March 4, 2013

03/04 - IFO Contract - Bill introduced to the MN House

A bill was introduced in the House today to ratify the IFO contract, along with three other contracts.   The bill is HF1069, authored by the three DFL House members on the Subcommittee on Employee Relations, Rep. Leon Lillie, Rep. Ryan Winkler, and Rep. Deb Hilstrom.     The Senate bill will be introduced later this week.   Here is a link to the bill: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1069.0.html&session=ls88 .  

Thursday, February 28, 2013

02/28 - Minnesota Budget Forecast February 2013

Here is the Minnesota Budget Forecast February 2013:



An important note: The deficit is down to $627 million from the previously projected $1.1 billion.