DEED in the News
A new state program aims to help technology companies get started in Minnesota. Launch Minnesota will provide information and grants to people who are starting companies in sectors including aerospace, agricultural processing, nanotechnology and medical devices. It has a yearly budget of $2.5 million and will be administered by DEED. MPR News guest host Phil Picardi spoke with DEED Commissioner Steve Grove about the program.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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