MINNEAPOLIS, MN – A report released today on Minnesota’s workforce crisis provides a data-driven examination of the trends and forces driving workforce shortages in the state and identifies strategies to mitigate the problem. Economists from leading labor market analytics firm Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) authored Minnesota’s Vanishing Workforce in...
Minnesota Business Partnership Names Kurt Zellers as Next CEO
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The Minnesota Business Partnership (MBP) today announced the hiring of Kurt Zellers as its next CEO. He was selected following a robust search process led by MBP’s six-member search committee and managed by executive recruitment firm Furst Group. Zellers, who served as Minnesota’s Speaker of the House...
Commentary: Paid family leave bill is deeply flawed
In a commentary for the Star Tribune, Minnesota Business Partnership executive director Charlie Weaver takes aim at the deeply flawed Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) bill being advanced at the State Capitol: Minnesota's large employers support paid employee leave. In fact, they voluntarily offer some of the most generous...
MBP Statement Regarding House Omnibus Tax Bill
Charlie Weaver, executive director of the Minnesota Business Partnership, released the following statement regarding the House omnibus tax bill: “Despite an historic $18 billion surplus, the DFL majority in the Minnesota House has proposed billions in tax increases. This proposal will not only make it harder to recruit talent and businesses...