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Start seeing our students’ successes
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Not far from the site of a recent gang attack by a few young people on the East Side of St. Paul, a powerfully uplifting event last week brought focus to trends that are far more significant and representative of our capital city’s youth. Dozens of smiling high schoolers dressed in sharp uniforms lined up outside of Washington Technology Magnet School to greet hundreds of school district tutors, pare... Read More
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Texans and Minnesotans learning from each other
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT DALLAS — Mayor Mike Rawlings is a plain-spoken former CEO who is rather brash about his city’s emergence as the center of what is now the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area and a powerhouse of economic growth, or as he puts it, the top-ranked destination in America for U-Haul trailer drop-offs. And yet Rawlings also is rather humble about how the long-term economic health of ... Read More
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Education · Achievement Gap · Early Childhood · Higher Education · K-12 · STRIVE · Students of Color · By Growth & Justice · Capitol Report Columns -
‘Inequality for All’ film calls for a more inclusive prosperity
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT One of our nation’s more courageous “one-percenters” explains on a popular YouTube video — and in a movie soon to be released — how having 1,000 times as much money as the average worker does not create jobs or as much economic activity as putting more of that money in the average family’s hands. Nick Hanauer, CEO of a West Coast company that makes pillows, notes that un... Read More
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The compounding liabilities of racism and inequality
ST. PAUL LEGAL LEDGER CAPITOL REPORT Chris Rock, the always funny and now very rich African-American comedian, had something quite serious to say recently when he was asked if he still experiences racism. “Every now and then I’m in a situation where someone doesn’t recognize me, and I experience racism,” he said. “Things like not being buzzed into a store, or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone a... Read More
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New G&J report on income inequality makes headlines
The latest report from Growth & Justice, Widening Economic Inequality in Minnesota: Causes, Effects, and a Proposal for Estimating Its Impact in Policymaking, is making headlines across the state and has even been picked up by media outlets in Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Read more at Bring me the News, Grand Forks Herald, KAAL TV 6 News, KFGO The Mighty 790AM, KSTP 5 Eyewitness News, KTTC TV, LaCross... Read More
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