DEED Roundup - June 10, 2019

DEED Roundup Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development

June 10, 2019

DEED in the News

New State Program Aims to Support Tech Innovation in Minnesota
MPR - 6/6/2019

Bob Isaacson Speaks at Enterprise Minnesota Panel

Minnesota Manufacturers' Survey Shows Concerns over Worker Shortage

Faribault Daily News - 6/4/2019

The imminent workforce shortage was once again a focal point during the presentation of Enterprise Minnesota’s annual survey results regarding manufacturing in Minnesota. President and CEO of Enterprise Minnesota Bob Kill presented the results of the State of Manufacturing survey to a group of roughly 100 professionals at the Owatonna Country Club Tuesday morning.

Local Resources Available to Help Individuals with Criminal Backgrounds Re-enter the Workforce
The Globe - 6/5/2019

One in four people in the United States has a criminal record. That’s a statistic from the nonprofit-organization We Are All Criminals. For those with a criminal record, punishment or consequences of a bad decision may continue beyond their state-mandated sentence, local and state career professionals say. For one Jackson County resident, getting released from jail came with a whole different kind of hurdle: finding employment.

Recent Blog Posts

 

DEED staff at community engagement session

Community Engagement Sessions: What Did We Learn? What’s Next?

On the DEED Developments blog, Deputy Commissioner Hamse Warfa wrote about what we have learned from the Community Engagement Sessions.  Using these sessions Deputy Commissioner Warfa lays out his plan for the coming weeks and months on what to do and how to improve DEED's grant application process. 

Ten Years of Disability Inclusion in Minnesota

It took David Andrews, chief technology officer for State Services for the Blind, to ask the right question: Why is the State of Minnesota purchasing inaccessible technology? Chuk Hamilton, former SSB director, helped define the problem through a comment/complaint website where feedback on state services and programs from all state agencies was solicited. Learn more about Andrews' work on the DEED Developments Blog.

Did You Know?

Minnesota Monthly Economic Snapshot shows more about the state

Minnesota has the third best five-year survival rate for businesses in the United States according to DEED's Monthly Economic Snapshot. Every month DEED economists compile a list of relevant rankings and statistics from across the nation and put them on the Economic Snapshot page of DEED's website. Other strong rankings for Minnesota's economy include, having the second highest labor force participation rate and the first highest high school graduation rate.