The Minnesota Dashboard

The numbers behind the arguments, in one place. Two panels pull straight from the federal statistical agencies every time this site is published. The rest come from the primary sources documented in the research series, and every chart links to the article that explains it. Hover for values. Every chart has a table view.

The economy, live

Fetched from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau at build time. The "everyone is fleeing Minnesota" story meets the actual count.

Public safety

The BCA's own reports. Three straight years of falling murders statewide, and Minneapolis at its lowest homicide count in years. Fraud offenses now outnumber all violent crime combined.

Money and schools

How the state went from a record surplus to a structural gap in one biennium, and where Minnesota State's enrollment actually stands.

Before and after

Pairs of numbers that tell the story on their own. Green means Minnesota moved the right way. Red means it did not. Click any tile for the article and the source.

How to read this page

Charts marked Live data are rebuilt from the agency's published series each time the site deploys; the build date is at the top of the page. Everything else is transcribed from the primary source named under the chart and documented in the linked article, which also lists what could not be verified. Years missing from a chart are omitted, not interpolated. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. To cite: "Madgett for Minnesota, The Minnesota Dashboard, madgettformn.com/dashboard (accessed date)."

The underlying data file is public: dashboard.json.