Paul Tosto
Stocks and high value housing have led wealth recovery, which is why many Americans don’t feel recovered. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Paul Tosto
Paul Tosto is an editor for MPR News.
“Daddy, I don’t want you to play football anymore.” Read more →
Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association and one of the great American tinkerers, died Thursday. Read more →
My youthful indiscretion with coffee might as well be part of my epitaph. Read more →
How’s the pay for people who take care of our aging parents and, eventually, us? The pay is not great — startlingly so. Read more →
Minnesota has one of the highest home ownership rates and lowest jobless rates in the nation. That’s been consistently true in good economic times and bad. So it’s completely weird lately to read research arguing that, nationally, just the opposite is true — that rising home ownership in a state is a “precursor to eventual sharp Read more →
June marks four years since the Great Recession ended and the economic recovery technically began. Most Americans households are still trying to recover.
An education statistic that should really worry us
How do we examine economic success, employment trends, the education achievement gap and other big topics if people increasingly don’t fit into the categories that have been built to look at that data?
I learn something new every time I read through the Today’s Document Tumblr page published by the National Archives. Sometimes it’s stuff that I learn that I guess I wish I hadn’t. I felt that way reading a recently posted document on the Kent State shooting. Saturday marks 43 years since National Guard troops killed Read more →
China and Illinois have been recruiting targets for the U for a few years now. The five-year trend maps, though, show just how important that growth has become.
MPR photo/Mark Steil I’ve been swimming around in turkey data. We all know Minnesota is the nation’s number one state in turkey production. Here are few other stats: — In 1992, the USDA listed separate production numbers from 28 states. Minnesota that year accounted for about 13 percent of total US production. It was a Read more →
In a couple weeks, we’ll mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the Great Recession. No one will be celebrating. Even in Minnesota, where the pain hasn’t been as bad as in some parts of the country, we’re still struggling for traction in two key industries: manufacturing and construction. Construction has really taken it Read more →
Scott Olson/Getty Images I was much more of a Devil Dogs guy. Growing up in New England, the Drake’s company ruled my snack world with Ring Dings, Yodels, Devil Dogs and the Drake’s coffee cake in all its golden crumbly goodness. Yes, I’m reminiscing today about the snacks of my childhood. You probably are, too, Read more →