Last Monday, the Duluth City Council voted 7-2 to approve a modified version of Governor Tim Pawlenty's Job Opportunity Building Zones, or JOBZ, program. The modifications approved include giving the ...

With a controversial history and a looming sunset date, Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s marquee rural economic development program, JOBZ, appeared to be headed for its grave before the November 2 general election ...

Employers in Blue Earth and Nicollet counties have created 44 more jobs than required under the JOBZ program, according to interviews and formal reports filed this month. The nine companies ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty presented his economic manifesto earlier ...

Our state's cornerstone economic development tool for Greater Minnesota, the Job Opportunity Building Zone program, popularly known as JOBZ, has been hugely successful. So it comes as a surprise that ...

WILLMAR -- Like many central Minnesota communities, Kandiyohi County has benefited from tax incentives designed to help new and expanding businesses. But Steve Renquist, executive director of the ...

The JOBZ applications of two Litchfield manufacturers earned approval from the Litchfield City Council but not before council members debated the merits of the JOBZ program itself. Limpert Brothers ...

Economic-development officials in Central Minnesota are praising the state’s new program of financial incentives for job creation, calling it an improvement from its predecessor. State officials last ...

The state's leading program to create rural jobs gives tax breaks where they aren't needed while overstating what it has accomplished and understating the cost, the legislative auditor reported Friday ...

Small communities across the region already are wooing businesses to several newly identified tax-free zones. The new Job Opportunity Building Zone (JOBZ) areas identified Thursday are intended to ...