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Each year, the Center assembles the latest demographic and economic data to create the State of Rural Minnesota report. Most of the data used for the presentation can also be found at our Atlas of Minnesota Online. (January 2016) To download the full report click on the link below: State of Rural Minnesota Presentation

The State of Minnesota funds its public schools primarily through a funding formula that provides school districts the same amount of revenue per pupil regardless of the size of their enrollment. In an earlier paper (Thorson and Edmondson 2000), we demonstrated that, similar to other areas of the economy, larger school districts incur less cost ...

The study’s findings documented the following: Only 52% of small rural businesses offered their full-time employees health insurance coverage. Only 4% of these same businesses offered insurance to their parttime employees. Over 40% of small rural businesses reported health insurance premium increases of 20% or more in the past 12 months. In addition to the ...