Blandin Foundation
News Release

Economic recovery is reaching Minnesotans unequally, according to a statewide survey released by the Blandin Foundation. The real-time snapshot of community issues, perceptions and priorities among rural Minnesota residents, called Rural Pulse(TM), demonstrated that demand for living-wage jobs far outweighs all other concerns.

While residents note that the economy has improved somewhat, 58 percent of rural Minnesotans and 41 percent of urban Minnesotans say there are insufficient local job opportunities.  Urban residents are nearly twice as likely as rural residents to say that their economy has improved over the past year. Read more: http://www.blandinfoundation.org/resources/news-detail.php?intResourceID=7903