Minnesota organizations offer 'recipe' for economic security - Workday Minnesota

It’s as Minnesotan as tater-tot hotdish. That’s what leaders of labor, faith and progressive organizations said about the recipe for economic security they personally delivered to Gov. Tim Pawlenty over the lunch hour Wednesday.

The “Minnesota Recipe for Economic Security, Fairness and Opportunity,” developed by a coalition of groups that includes the Blue Green Alliance and the Service Employees International Union’s Healthcare Minnesota local, is a progressive answer to the folksy “kitchen table” analogy Pawlenty often uses to justify slashing the state’s budget.

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