{"id":87544,"date":"2024-05-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87544"},"modified":"2024-05-13T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T04:11:15","slug":"weve-got-good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87544","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Got Good News And Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The good news:  Minnesota&#8217;s new paid family leave law <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotareformer.com\/2024\/05\/13\/deed-says-minnesota-paid-leave-program-will-start-with-25-higher-payroll-tax-than-first-proposed\/\">will cost 25% more than originally budgeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Minnesota\u2019s new paid family and medical leave program will launch in 2026 with a 25% higher payroll tax than originally anticipated when the bill was passed last session, an assistant commissioner with the Department of Employment and Economic Development told lawmakers on Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because DEED has been given legislative authority to raise the tax, the agency can do so without requiring a new law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wait, Mitch &#8211; I thought you said that was the <em>good <\/em>news?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news?  The program doesn&#8217;t start until 2026.  Like the Southwest LIght Rail and every other DFL spending boondoggle, this program is going to get more expensive before anyone ends up using it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: Minnesota&#8217;s new paid family leave law will cost 25% more than originally budgeted: Minnesota\u2019s new paid family and medical leave program will launch in 2026 with a 25% higher payroll tax than originally anticipated when the bill was passed last session, an assistant commissioner with the Department of Employment and Economic Development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87545,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87544\/revisions\/87545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}