With pandemic program at an end, many Minnesotans will have to find work to keep food stamp benefits
And House Republicans are seeking to broaden those requirements as one of their conditions for raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
And House Republicans are seeking to broaden those requirements as one of their conditions for raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
It was the second-costliest civil uprising in U.S. history, and there’s still a backlog of unfinished redevelopment projects.
DFL legislators have thrown around the word “historic” for quite a lot of their bills this year. But two infrastructure bills definitely were.
DFL Gov. Tim Walz called it “the most successful legislative session, certainly in many of our lifetimes and maybe in Minnesota history.”
The PERMIT-MN bill would set limits on time for environmental reviews and otherwise streamline the federal permitting process.
Worldwide combined reporting would have required corporations with foreign subsidiaries who owe income taxes to the state to include earnings of overseas subsidiaries.
Phillips has been leading conversations within the Democratic caucus over the debt ceiling, which must be raised as soon as June 1 to avoid a national default that would have a severe impact on the economy.
Minnesota’s senior senator said she helped promote the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which in 2020 replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement, after Canada balked at several provisions.
The bill sponsors said they think they still have enough DFL votes to approve the final bill and expect some Republicans to support it.
Sen. Sandra Pappas, a St. Paul DFLer who chairs the Senate’s Capital Investment Committee, last week said “it’s only fair that we focus on funding the projects for members that are willing to be partners and that are voting for the bill.”
“This would be a good time to batten down the financial hatches. Not because a recession is at hand, it’s not. And not because the banking system is set to unravel, it won’t. It’s because of a politically manufactured crisis …”
Many economists have reached similar conclusions about minimum wage increases in the past, but some progressives and labor groups argue $15 still isn’t high enough to ensure working class families can make ends meet.
The tax hike, which would raise $200 million a year for housing projects and programs in the seven-county area, is part of a $1 billion investment in affordability that sponsors and advocates are calling historic. It would be the first-ever tax dedicated to affordable housing.
You know how Al Gore “invented the internet?” Minneapolis’ 48th mayor just “invented” Tuesday.
Even as Democrats coalesce around a series of tax cuts and credits, the child care credit is one of a few significant differences the House and Senate will need to reconcile. It’s also one of few major DFL tax plans to benefit middle class residents.
Experts say Minnesota would be the only state to adopt a measure targeting corporations that have subsidiaries overseas.
House and Senate leaders also agree on a partial rollback of the state’s tax on Social Security benefits.
DFL Senate leaders say they are mostly aligned with DFL House leaders on the size of the Social Security tax cut.
A change to the city’s zoning laws, which could take effect later this year, could soon allow triplexes on single-family lots.
Council members who support rent control hope to convince the mayor to at least let the issue pass through to the voters if they couldn’t muster a veto-proof majority.