Minnesota job creation: Where it comes from, how it happens

Gov. Mark Dayton kicks off what he's calling his "statewide jobs tour" today with a visit to Fergus Falls.

Polls show voters place jobs and the economy at the top of their list of concerns. That may be one reason why even as agency budgets were being cut throughout state government, this year's state budget nearly doubled the size of a relatively small and little-known program called the Minnesota Investment Fund.

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