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How Jet Edge Won Contracts in Africa Thanks to a Trade Mission to China
Minnesota Business-12/19/14
Minnesota is expanding its role in the global market. The state has opened foreign trade offices in Brazil, Germany, and South Korea. This is good news for Minnesota’s small and midsize businesses, leading to increased access to foreign markets and more resources for doing business abroad. For inspiration, they might look to Jet Edge, a designer and manufacturer of waterjet systems for precision cutting, surface preparation, and coating removal, based in St. Michael.
State Grants Aim to Get More Women in Hard Hats
Star Tribune-1/11/15
DEED Commissioner Katie Clark Sieben said the grants target low-wage women or those over age 50 who want in on some of Minnesota’s highest-growth industries. The program should slim the gender wage gap, where women earn just 80 cents for every $1 a man earns.
Minnesota, Upper Midwest Economy Expected to Grow a Little Faster in 2015
Star Tribune-1/6/15
The Minnesota economy should gain momentum in 2015, with falling unemployment, a quicker pace of job growth and modest increases in wages.
Minnesota Has a Bright Future
HometownSource.com-1/12/15
From an economic standpoint, Minnesota is a state that works. Years ago, Gov. Wendell Anderson was pictured on the cover of Time magazine holding up a fish to illustrate that Minnesota then was a state that worked. Now it’s working better than most states in the nation, and there are good predictions for 2015.
Minnesota: At Work on Our Workforce
Pioneer Press-1/10/15
Attention to workforce issues in the first bills of the 2015 Minnesota legislative session -- from both political parties and in both bodies -- is a welcome sign.
Minnesota eatery makes Thrillist. It's all about their Jucy Lucy.
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Survey: Manufacturing Strength to Continue in 2015
Minnesota manufacturers are optimistic about the industry in 2015, with more than 90 percent saying they expect production and employment levels to increase or stay the same – up more than 10 percent from 2014 for both indicators.
Unemployment Insurance Claims Lowest Since 2007
DEED will provide summaries of unemployment benefits paid in 2014 to 178,649 Minnesotans, the lowest level of claims since before the Great Recession.
Four Companies Expanding with Help from DEED Program
Four small businesses -- PurNet Inc. in Worthington, Step Saver Inc. in Morton, and
Monsanto operations in Olivia and Glyndon -- are expanding with
assistance from the Greater Minnesota Job Expansion Program, a new DEED initiative launched last fall. The businesses are planning to invest a total
of $12.8M on expansion projects that will result in 16 new jobs.
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To meet your goal of landing a great new job in 2015, think of these tips from James Weber: Reflect, recharge, regroup.
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'Sky Tinged Red,' written after World War II by Isaia Eiger,
is the first book produced by State Services for the Blind to be accepted for
posting on the National Library Service’s
(NLS) online download library. The account of Eiger's years as a prisoner at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps was recently translated by the author’s
daughter, Dora Zaidenwebber, who is legally blind and an SSB customer. To make more titles available sooner to its
patrons, NLS launched an initiative to make
books produced by NLS affiliates and local radio reading services available for download. These books must meet a set of production and quality standards set by
NLS. "We are very proud that our books, which are read by our
excellent volunteers, meet the high technical standards
of the National Library Service," said Brianna Holeman, SSB Deputy Director for
Operations. “It is especially rewarding that the translation of this book
was made by someone who knows the value of having access to books.” Volunteer
Chris Colestock was the reader on 'Sky Tinged Red,' first recorded for broadcast on SSB’s Radio
Talking Book radio reading service. |
