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Minnesota 2020 Journal: Legislative Session Distractions
After ten-plus years of conservative public policy, Minnesota is falling behind. We’ve placed the priorities of Minnesota’s highest income earners ahead of middle and low-income Minnesotans’ needs. We’re investing fewer state resources in schools than we were a decade ago. Our roads are crumbling because we’re not maintaining them at a rate that matches our use. Affordable healthcare, a key element in Minnesota’s business competitiveness, is increasingly eluding working families. This is not a prescription for prosperity. Conservative legislative policymakers want to continue this slide. Their legislative session policy priorities include a series of constitutional amendments that would permanently place…
Corporate Attack on Minnesota Unions
As the 2012 legislative session commences, the coordinated corporate attacks on public employees and unions will remain front and center throughout the next year. Corporations want to build on the electoral successes they experienced in 2010 and make sure that unions are weakened, and that pro-corporate legislators retain legislative majorities here in Minnesota. The New York Times recently published an editorial, “Continuing Assault on Unions,” which was powerful for two reasons – first, it put the American Legislation Exchange Council (ALEC) in the spotlight as the conservative, corporate-sponsor of “right to work” legislation, and second, the editorial stated that conservatives…
