President’s message: Ready or not, the fall’s political campaigns have begun
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President’s message: Ready or not, the fall’s political campaigns have begun

Education Minnesota President, Denise Specht’s message: There was no good reason for the Republican members of the Minnesota Senate to pack up and stop negotiating before the deadline to pass bills during the 2022 session of the Minnesota Legislature, but there was a bad one: Election-year politics.

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Legislative deal on frontline worker pay, unemployment insurance lacks important safety net for hourly school workers

The Minnesota Legislature on Friday approved bills to give frontline workers one-time payments for their work during the pandemic and billions of dollars in tax relief to businesses by replenishing the unemployment insurance trust fund.Â