REGISTER NOW: For “Thriving by Design, Rural & Urban Together,” June 27-29, in Granite Falls Registration is now open for our signature event of 2018, a statewide convening June 27-29 in the historic and scenic western Minnesota town of Granite Falls. Participants in this event will help us create a unifying “One Minnesota Equity Blueprint,’’ a new social contract that helps address all our damaging... Read More
June 27-29, in Granite Falls, for “Thriving by Design, Rural & Urban Together” Growth & Justice is partnering with OneMN.org to convene a statewide gathering in the historic and scenic western Minnesota town of Granite Falls, from June 27-29. Attendees will help create a unifying “One Minnesota Equity Blueprint’’ with public policies and a new socio-economic contract that heals our damaging divi... Read More
Minnesota Women Leading Renewable Energy Our quest at Growth & Justice for a more equitable economy in Minnesota leads us to work on many fronts, including racial, environmental and gender justice. We call attention to injustice and look for practical solutions, but we also like to celebrate progress. An example of the latter is a series of profiles by the Clean Energy Resource Team project that honors the impressive cadre... Read More
Restoring the Vote Inches Closer Despite bipartisan support and a close vote in a Minnesota House committee, it appears that Minnesota will have to wait at least another year to restore voting rights to some 63,000 Minnesotans who have been released from incarceration but are still on probation. This goal is high on the list for Growth & Justice and many other groups focused on Minnesota’s economy-crippling racial gap... Read More
An Update on Ending Poverty in MN Almost a decade ago the bi-partisan Commission to End Poverty in Minnesota by 2020 issued a report with dozens of sound policy recommendations. Growth & Justice since then has been allied with several organizations, including the Minnesota Asset Building Coalition and A Minnesota Without Poverty, advancing those original recommendations and many others that foster ... Read More