Can Good Policy “Trump” the Rural-Urban Divide?

Air date: Jul 16, 2018 @ 1:00pm

Tags: Brett Buckner, Growth and Justice, One Minnesota

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TTT1828 July 16 Urban-Local Development - Peter McGlaughlin

Academics and journalists analyze it and voting results seem to confirm it: Here in Minnesota and across the nation, there is a growing divide between urban and rural communities. Is the gap caused by ethnic and cultural differences? Do city folk just not “get” the economic and social issues facing rural people? Is it possible to create together an agenda that meets everyone’s needs? TruthToTell interviews Brett Buckner, managing director of One Minnesota, who is working with the Minneapolis nonprofit Growth and Justice as well as participants across the state to develop "Thriving by Design", a blueprint for an equitable and just Minnesota.

TruthToTell: WIDENING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: An Old Story Lives in New Numbers

Tags: 99%, Andy Driscoll, Briana Halverson, Business, CivicMedia-Minnesota, Community Media, Community Radio, Growth and Justice, income, Income Disparity, Income Inquality, KFAI Radio, Michelle Alimoradi, Minneapolis, Minnesota, public affairs, Thomas Legg, tom o'connell, TruthToTell, union jobs, Working America

New studies warn us about the pending disasters that could well occur if continued economic inequality sticks with us and we don’t get our heads out of the sand about where each of us in middle-class circumstances actually sits along the income and to see the real harm increasing poverty is doing to disrupt society[...] Read More »

TruthToTell 9-23-13 Excerpt: Thomas Legg Explains Recent Growth & Justice Report Findings

Thomas Legg explains the findings in a recent report from Growth and Justice on income inequality in Minnesota.

TruthToTell Jan17: MLK SPECIAL REPEAT: COLLEGE ATTAINMENT: Higher Ed for Students of Color – Audio Below

Air date: Jan 17, 2011 @ 12:00am

Tags: college, Dane, education, Godinez, Growth and Justice, Mariani, minority, of color, students

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Truth To Tell (2011-01-17)

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY REPEAT SPECIAL: How in heaven’s name can Minnesota possibly achieve a 75% rate of high-schoolers attending college by 2020 when the very survival of the state’s pre-school through senior high school system is in dire straits – facing a questionable future given recent budgets and a disastrous combination of higher education[...] Read More »

TruthToTell Nov 1: COLLEGE ATTAINMENT: Higher Ed for Students of Color – Audio Below

Air date: Nov 1, 2010 @ 12:00am

Tags: college, Dane, education, Godinez, Growth and Justice, Mariani, minority, of color, students

How in heaven’s name can Minnesota possibly achieve a 75% rate of high-schoolers attending college by 2020 when the very survival of the state’s pre-school through senior high school system is in dire straits – facing a questionable future given recent budgets and a disastrous combination of higher education tuition increases and K-12 budget cuts[...] Read More »

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