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The article discusses that Ninth District employers face adjustments in persistently tight labor market. It mentions that despite tight labor conditions, businesses reported continued growth; and also mentions that tourism-related employers have found that getting foreign workers through visa programs is tougher than in the past.

The article highlights the economic forecast in Minnesota's northwoods. It highlights the description of the growth of the Minneapolis Fed traveled to the northern Minnesota cities of Park Rapids, Bemidji, and Grand Rapids and also highlights decline of unemployment rates since the Great Recession.

The article highlights the performance of national and Ninth District economy with surrounding trade, widespread flooding, and other weather elements. It highlights that Ninth District economy has focused a modest bounce higher as according to current business conditions reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and also highlights the slow performance of commercial and residential construction in the district.

The article discusses labor market being optimistic in Ninth District. Topics include unemployment claims being higher in some places and job postings declining in many district states, supplemental insights and data from numerous contacts across the Ninth District, and the Minneapolis Fed having a growing stable at staffing firms and among human resources professionals.

The article discusses business growth in the Ninth District. Topics include Ninth District establishment growth being more stable but slower during economic recovery, the business life remaining net positive since start of the economic recovery, and slow decline in average employment at new establishments.

The article discusses low prices, high production expenses, and extreme weather leading to farm stress including higher bankruptcies. Topics include the Ninth District's farm economy struggling to tread water, analysis of production costs remain elevated, and farmers dealing with a host of compounding problems, including production costs that remains usually high.

The article discusses continuing downturn in agriculture in the Ninth District economy despite severe, tariffs and retail closings. Topics include the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Beige Book report on business conditions, supplemental information to support mixed-growth theme, and sectors of the economy agriculture dealing with recession to low commodity prices.

The article discusses sustained growth in Rochester, Minnesota dominated by health care. Topics include the state economy lagging the national economy, jobs in the health care and educational services sector making up forty percent of the Rochester job market, and a survey by Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce revealing that two-thirds of respondents hiring to grow.

The article reports growth in the Ninth District economy including gains in employment, wages, consumer spending, and manufacturing. Topics include Fed of Greater Minnesota employers founding labor demand to be a bit weaker, a survey of large Minnesota employers revealing that virtually all responding firms were challenged in multiple ways which borne much of the brunt of rapidly increasing online sales, and tight labor markets continuing to be a big concern.

The article reports slower growth in South Dakota economy due to decline in the farm economy. Topics include analysis of tough farm economy, trifurcation of the state economy, and tight labor on the area, South Dakota economy keeping up until about 2014, and a Minneapolis Fed showing the state's struggling farms, strong construction, and a tight labor market.

The article discusses the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' report on regional economic conditions and business conditions including construction, manufacturing, and energy. Topics include unemployment insurance continue to drop year-over-year, analysis of interest rates and credit availability, agriculture and tariffs on the area, and three separate ad hoc surveys by Minneapolis Fed including Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota.

The article highlights the rise of Chapter 12 bankruptcies in the Ninth District. It mentions about economic strain of low commodity prices on farmers and ranchers that compounded for some by recent tariffs and also highlights that Chapter 12 bankruptcy allows for repayment and uses facets of both chapter 11 and chapter 13 bankruptcy.

The article highlights the result of a survey of job vacancies by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) that showed continued growth in the number of unfilled jobs and increase in full-time jobs, as well as low levels of seasonal or temporary vacancies. It highlights the result of job-posting data that shows rising available jobs across Ninth District states.

The article offers information on the above-average growth of Bozeman, Montana for an extended period of time, which is bringing about growing pains as Montana's fourth-most-populous community transitions from small town to big city. It highlights developing of other major and minor ingredients for strong growth.

The article reports on the consequences of crop insurance as the federal Government Accountability Office has noted that crop insurance has become one of the most important programs in the farm safety net and also highlights that the federal government has long subsidized farmers to purchase it.

The article discusses Economic transitions of Escanaba and the southern Upper Peninsula.Topics innclude Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari traveled there in May to hear directly about business and community conditions in the uttar pradesh, the owner of a wastehauling business said operations had grown substantially in recent years and business activity was robust, and the U.P has lot of economic stake in legacy industries like forestry and mining.

The article discusses transitioning of community to a new economic identity in Duluth-Superior. Topics include Neel Tushar Kashkari organizing two public forums in the Twin Ports, one with college students and the biannual Regional Economic Indicators Forum, reasons for the slower growth being workforce shortages that limit the ability to hire workers, and housing shortage that limited growth in the local labor pool.

The article discusses how policy and business work in the Ninth District. Topics include focus of attention and conversation regarding the state's most important policy and economic issues, slow-growing workforces, and housing projects by the Cheyenne River Housing Authority and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate on the Lakota Traverse Reservation.

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Talk to any town chairman in southeastern Wisconsin, and you'll likely encounter someone who sees little chance for preserving genuine rural flavor in the region. 'I would love to preserve [...]

Drive down any major highway or freeway leading from Milwaukee and you can't help but see the patchwork subdivisions. There are office and industrial parks surrounded by farmland. Strip malls [...]

The article focuses on the positive economy in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP) which include strong sales, increased revenues, and increased demand. The decreased labor force in the region which stems from net outmigration, low birth rate, and an aging workforce and a marked increase in enrollment in federal disability programs is cited. A chart is presented depicting UP employment.

The article focuses on the economic progress of the three-county region in northwestern Wisconsin which include Eau Claire, Chippewa, and Dunn counties. The economic recovery of Eau Claire since 2009 which has been stronger than the state and national average is mentioned. A chart is presented depicting Eau Claire metro housing which is gaining strength.

The article focuses on the different economic feel in La Crosse, Wisconsin which include increased employment in the region. The $3 nillion contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to health care company Logistics Health Inc. to provide medical services to veteran and to create 300 new local jobs is mentioned. A chart is presented depicting housing construction subdued.

The article focuses on the data of southwest Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) which shows that job vacancies in the southwest region have roughly tripled to about 2,000 openings since the economic recovery began. Increased share of full-time vacancies and signs of real wage increases is stated. A chart is presented depicting job growth sluggish in the region.

The article offers information on the disability enrollment among working-age people that increase over the past several decades. It highlights two large federal disability programs Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and also highlights an intuitive explanation on disability.

The article highlights the decline in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). It highlights that CRP was initiated in 1986 with a goal to pay farmers a modest rental fee to take marginal, highly erodible land out of production to reduce erosion and improve soil health and wildlife habitat and also highlights the drop of CRP payments to district farmers.

The article reports that more attention is given to concentrated health insurance markets in the U.S. Aetna decided to acquire Humana for billions of dollars in the year 2015. According to the author, smaller health insurance providers have been able to obtain market share in some states of the country.

The article discusses the attempt of health care providers to scale in order to meet the changing market demands and regulatory pressures. Topics covered include consolidation as a logical business reaction to economic and policy pressures, the conflicting policies for managing costs, and the wave of physicians leaving private practice to become health care system or hospital employees in Montana.

The article reports on the steady pace of job growth in the U.S. as of July 2015 since the 2008 recession. Topics include the slower growth of government employment than jobs in the private sector since the recession ended, the failure of manufacturing and construction to regain their former employment levels, and why these sectors have reasons for optimism.

The article examines how the U.S. nonprofit sector is recovering from the recession and the challenges that it is facing in 2015. Topics covered include how nonprofit organizations provide critical help to people in need and offer many other services that for-profit businesses and governments cannot provide and how the social services sector is dealing with rising service demands and poor funding. INSET: A world of nonprofits.

The article presents a reprint of the article on an interview with small-town advocates which appeared in the October 2010 issue of the journal "fedgazette." It discusses an interview with University of Minnesota-Moriss' Center for Small Towns (CST) interim director Bart Finzel, Minnesota Association of Small Cities executive director Dave Engstrom, and Bush Foundation manager Jane Leonard. It mentions the challenges and opportunities facing small town communities during and after recession.

The article shares insights on the challenges brought by incentives to workforce attitudes towards disability and work in the U.S. It notes the rise in enrollment and spending in two major federal working-age disability programs nationwide since 2000 due to factors including shifting demographics, changes in program eligibility, and fallout from recessions. It also talks about the basics of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). INSET: The basics: SSDI and SSI.

The article focuses on the Ninth District which has some of the highest upward mobility in the U.S. indicating that the American dream is more alive in the area. It notes however that some of the places with the least upward mobility are also in the Ninth District with most of these places having large Indian reservations including the Rosebud Reservation. It indicates that more tribal members are returning to these reservations due to a spiritual calling or a duty to their tribal family.

The article discusses a study by academic researchers led by Raj Chetty of Harvard University on the intergenerational income mobility of poor families across the U.S. The research evolved into an ongoing study dubbed Equality of Opportunity Projects which looked at incomes of children from the poorest families to determine how they fared as 30 to 32 year olds. It cites the 9th District where adult children in the study scored higher in the absolute upward mobility and bottom-to-top mobility.

The article focuses on the evolution of minimum wage work in Minnesota, Montana, Dakotas, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Topics discussed include the percentage of married people, women, and college graduates involved in minimum wage work and the debate on the impact of higher minimum wage on employers and other workers. Also mentioned are the purchasing power of the minimum wage population and the occupations with high concentration of these earners.

The article reports on the steady growth, since 2006, of international student enrollments in Ninth District universities and colleges. Increased enrollments are primarily attributed to word of mouth referral of former students, steadily rising demand for high-quality post-secondary education, and active international recruitment by the schools themselves. The National Association of Foreign Student Advisers projects that the U.S. will remain a highly attractive destination through 2025.

The article discusses aspects on several factors that affect the purchase of flood insurance by business establishments and households in the U.S. Topics discussed include insurance affordability, cost effectiveness, and flood insurance policies in the U.S. Also mentioned are the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), flooding analysis from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and disaster risk in flood-prone areas in the country.

The article focuses on the importance of staffing services industry for employees and employers. Among the key topics that were discussed include the implication of Great Recession to staffing firms, the tendency of employers to hire temporary employees due to unsure future of businesses, and economic aspects of staffing agencies and firms.

The article offers a look at the state of the oil and gas industry in the U.S. as of October 2013. Topics discussed include how state governments use oil and gas tax revenue, the establishment by U.S. states of a trust fund related to the industry, and natural resource endowments. Also mentioned are the approach being used by North Dakota to oil and gas revenue, funding for permanent oil and gas trust funds, and revenue from energy production.

The article discusses the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota in 2013 that has driven economic activity, tax revenue and the need to balance short-term needs with long-term economic development. It notes the scale of activity from oil and gas development and the challenge of dealing with the lack of capacity, infrastructure, and utilities in the state's rural areas. Charts are also provided on total and petroleum sector employment, percent change in permanent population, and sources of tax revenue.

The article reports on the significant decrease in public sector employment in the Ninth District of the U.S. in 2012. It reveals that almost 19,000 jobs were lost from the first quarter of 2010 to the same quarter of 2012. Job cuts have been spread widely among local, state and federal government workers in the district, with federal employment having the smallest share of total government employment. Majority of the job losses occurred among local governments.

The article discusses the rental housing market in Minneapolis, Minnesota and its local and global economic implications. The U.S. Census Bureau states the declining rate of homeownership and an increase in the rental industry. It notes the effects of the 2001 recession and the economic crisis on the rental markets' rates and revenues. Several charts are offered which includes homeownership rates, rental vacancy rates, and multi-family housing permits.

The author offers insights on whether or not it is recommended to be self-employed in the U.S. Several factors that should be considered by prospective entrepreneurs include the current economic condition in the U.S., and depressed demand for goods and services. Since 2009, self-employment in the U.S. has been declining. The results of a survey by New Business Minnesota regarding attitudes and responses toward self-employment are highlighted.

The article looks at problems facing closed-basin regions in the U.S. Several states with different sizes of closed basin include North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. Basin flooding has been occurring in the Devils Lake basin in North Dakota since the early 1990s. Several factors contributing to basin flooding in these states include high precipitation for an extended number of years and lack of a natural outlet.

The article reports on a surge of water in the Souris River pushed through the middle of Minot, North Dakota in June 2011 and a burst of oil pipeline underneath the Yellowstone River. Minot has a fund balance of 11 million U.S. dollars, or around 25 percent of the city's annual budget. According to the article, communities will have to rebuild with less help from the outside compared with previous major disasters. INSETS: A seeping feeling;Amid the flood: Heartache, hard work and hope.