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Hansen: Record Cuts to Higher Education Detrimental to Minnesota

Rick Hansen is the state representative for District 39A.

Minnesota has one of the most educated workforces in the country and it’s one of the many ways our state is attractive to businesses. Students who attend our public colleges and universities are more likely to stay in Minnesota, work in Minnesota, and raise a family in Minnesota. The research and work being done in our public colleges and universities in clean energy, robotics, health care and dozens of other fields has the potential to create thousands of new jobs, and even entirely new industries and technologies that we haven’t even thought of yet.  The students at our MNSCU schools, like Dakota County Technical College and Inver Hills Community College, are our future leaders and entrepreneurs. We should be embracing these colleges and…

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