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Minnesota Budget Bites

Racial Equity

01/09/17
  • Minnesota Tax Credits
  • Minnesota Taxes
  • Federal Taxes
  • Racial Equity
  • Income and Work

Racial wealth gap is wide and growing larger: 228 year gap for black families, 84 year gap for Latino families

If black family wealth continues to grow at the same pace as the past three decades, it will take more than 200 years...
10/04/16
  • Minnesota Budget
  • Racial Equity
  • Minnesota Budget Plans

Policymakers’ equity work makes strides, but much more to do

From Governor Mark Dayton’s State of the State address to the final bills put together at the very end of the 2016...
09/15/16
  • Racial Equity
  • Poverty

Census data: More work to do to address racial disparities

According to the latest Census data, Minnesota families brought home bigger paychecks in 2015 than they did in 2014. Min...
07/26/16
  • Racial Equity
  • Health Care

Missing MinnesotaCare provision could have moved the needle on one of the state’s glaring racial disparities

Final negotiations over the Health and Human Services (HHS) budget ended without the inclusion of an important proposal ...