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Ground Level

MPR News How communities are facing the future

Archives for March 2013

Tune in for a look at the skills gap question in Minnesota

Dave PetersDave Peters March 29, 2013, 4:51 PM Mar 29, 2013
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Ground Level launches a look at why some manufacturers have difficulty filling jobs and why it’s only partly because of a skills gap.

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Metro area creeps farther into rural Minnesota

Dave PetersDave Peters March 29, 2013, 8:30 AM Mar 29, 2013
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The federal government has expanded the Twin Cities metropolitan statistical area from 13 counties to 16, adding three outlying “rural” areas.

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Diversity

Deaths and births in Minnesota. Where are they?

Dave PetersDave Peters March 21, 2013, 8:32 AM Mar 21, 2013
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More than a third of Minnesota’s counties are experiencing more deaths than births, but a few places with high immigration in recent decades run counter to that trend.

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Broadband

Broadband at home: Nearly 8 in 10 Minn. households connected

Michael OlsonMichael Olson March 13, 2013, 2:03 PM Mar 13, 2013

22 percent of Minnesotans are without broadband

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Local government finance

Auditor: Minnesota cities cut spending and held property tax share flat

Dave PetersDave Peters March 8, 2013, 8:30 AM Mar 8, 2013
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Minnesota State Auditor Rebecca Otto’s annual report on city finances shows that the state’s cities continue to cut their spending in 2011.

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Economic Development

Skills gap? What skills gap?

Dave PetersDave Peters March 7, 2013, 10:52 AM Mar 7, 2013
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A new Department of Employment and Economic Development study finds that Minnesota’s “skills gap” — that is, the mismatch between what employers need and what job-seekers have — is more nuanced than has been portrayed.

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