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    Legislative Working Group on Economic Disparities

    Active dates:January 2016
    Authority:
    Established by Governor Mark Dayton and Legislative Leaders
    Function:

    The legislative working group was created to consider the economic and racial disparities policy issue with regards to the feasibility of addressing it in a special session. The working group concluded that the issue was too complex to address in a special session.

    History:

    The working group was created by Governor Dayton and legislative leaders. There were two other working groups created at the same time: Legislative Working Group on Real ID and Legislative Working Group on Iron Range Unemployment.

    The first meeting was January 7, 2016 in the Minnesota Senate Building.
    Membership:

    Rep. Knoblach, Rep. Garofalo, Rep. Loon; Rep. Erickson, Rep. Dean, Rep. Dehn, Rep. Clark, Rep. Mullery, Rep. Persell, Rep. Mahoney, Rep. Fischer, Rep. Schultz, Rep. E. Murphy, Rep. Flanagan, Rep. Carlson, Rep. Bly, Rep. Albright, Rep. Runbeck, Rep. Koznick. Rep. Gruenhagen, Rep. Quam, Rep. Fenton, Rep. Hertaus, Rep. Theis, Rep. McDonald, Rep. Kiel, Rep. Barrett, Rep. Moran, Rep. Backer

    Sen. Champion, Sen. Carlson, Sen. Dziedzic, Sen. Eaton, Sen. Franzen, Sen. Hawj, Sen. Hayden, Sen. Hoffman, Sen. Jensen, Sen. Lourey, Sen. Pappas, Sen. Tomassoni, Sen. Bonoff, Sen. Chamberlain, Sen. Hall, Sen. Senjem, Sen. Ingebrigtsen
    Agency heads:

    Co-chaired by Rep. Jim Knoblach, Sen. Bobby Joe Champion
    Internet resource:
    Legislative Working Group on Economic Disparities meeting, January 7, 2016 (audio/video)
    Legislative Working Group on Economic Disparities meeting, January 15, 2016 (video)
    Ways and Means Committee Documents (see 'Working Group' documents)
    Documents/Articles:
    News clippings and documents. Agencies Notebook Collection, 2016.
    Record last updated: 08/08/2023
     

    All information on this group from the Library’s collection of agency notebooks has been digitized. These materials are incorporated into the “documents/articles” section of the record. Please contact a librarian with any questions. The Minnesota Agencies database is a work in progress.

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