claim: despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."
author: occupy democrats
evidence_1: apr 7, 2000 ... the child-poverty rate has declined slowly since 1993, and the rate of black ... the  average income of the poorest one-fifth of families was lower in ... states will have  $12 billion in surplus federal welfare funds by 2002. .... other critics argue that  raising the minimum wage would lead to job losses and create ...
evidence_2: jul 29, 2010 ... mark dayton is the current governor of minnesota, having won election to  succeed ... "tim pawlenty has cut education funding in minnesota.
evidence_3: scott walker mum on trump-pence-ryan proposed tax hike on. ... and despite  spending billions of dollars over hundreds of pages of proposals, nearly one ....  walker's 2011 budget that effectively eliminated state income taxes on owners of  ..... wisconsin has had lagging job growth and rates of wage increases that trail ...
evidence_4: feb 5, 1995 ... manhattan's income gap is worse than guatemala's. ... instead of full employment , the united states has full prisons. ... real wages for average workers are  plummeting–despite rising productivity. ... in 1967, a full-time, year-round worker  paid minimum wage earned ... “cheap labor” does not mean low skill.
evidence_5: jan 27, 2003 ... economic proposals—multi-trillion dollar tax ... million low-income americans. ...  america needs a real plan for creating jobs, ... an increase in the minimum wage  to ... 2. time to get real about the economy • afl-cio ... for workers who have  lost billions in ... unemployed workers exhausted regular state.