Decent Work and Economic Growth

Minnesota is a national leader for women’s participation in the workplace. And yet, we also have a wider gender wage gap than most other states. 

Industrial safety programs often focus on counting up safety incidents, hoping the numbers go down instead of up. But NRRI is taking a different approach – stop the incidents before they happen.

The University of Minnesota is proposing to design and build a new academic health care center located in the Duluth Medical District.

From retail spending to labor demand, UMN Extension's Ryan Pesch can tell you what the economic indicators say about Minnesota’s small towns and rural areas as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.

The University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies and its partners have been awarded $6 million by the Federal Transit Administration to design and lead a new Mobility, Access and Transportation Insecurity: Creating Links to Opportunity Program.

After a decades-long decline — both in terms of financial investment and the overall size of the workforce — the COVID-19 pandemic prompted increased attention and funding for America’s public health systems.

The University of Minnesota is partnering with the State of Minnesota to inject $34.5 million into Minnesota’s early-stage, venture-backed businesses. 

The University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy has announced a grant of $750,000 over three years from The McKesson Foundation. 

The College of Education and Human Development has launched a college-wide SDG Initiative. 

A postdoctoral fellow in the School of Public Health co-led a study that quantifies problems involving workplace climate, culture and professional discrimination experienced by researchers within the health services and policy research field.