Browsing by Author "Palmquist, Ben"

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    The Economic Impact of the University of Minnesota Duluth on Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region and Douglas County, Wisconsin
    (University of Minnesota Duluth, 2022) Haynes, Monica; Chiodi Grensing, Gina; Palmquist, Ben; Ye, Daniel
    The University of Minnesota Duluth provides a significant positive impact on the region’s economy through its annual operations, construction, and student and visitor spending. In 2019 and 2020, the total impact of all UMD expenditures and those related to its students and visitors was estimated to have supported more than 4,100 jobs and contributed to more than $581 million in local production. During the study period, the university budgeted approximately $260 million in operational expenses, which included $188 million in compensation and benefits for nearly 1,800 employees. In addition, the institution spent more than $8 million annually on construction projects. The spending from the university’s operational expenditures resulted in nearly 3,000 jobs and almost $436 million of additional output, while the construction spending led to a total of 82 jobs and over $11 million of additional output throughout the region. Student and visitor spending provides a significant impact to the local economy as well. It is estimated that, in 2019 and 2020, students attending UMD spent an estimated $88 million, while visitors coming from out of the study region to see those students spent another approximately $10 million. Combined, this spending produced more than 1,100 jobs and increased output for the region by nearly $135 million. In FY2019 and FY2020, UMD received, on average, $50.6 million in state funding while providing more than $581 million in total output. In other words, for every dollar of state support, UMD provided roughly $11.50 in total economic impact to the Arrowhead Region in 2019 and 2020.
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    The Economic Value of the Cruise Industry to the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Statistical Area
    (University of Minnesota Duluth, 2021) Haynes, Monica; Chiodi Grensing, Gina; Brand, Nathan; Thorsgard, Haakan; Palmquist, Ben; Ye, Daniel
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    Interviews with Stakeholders: The Potential Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts on Duluth, Minnesota, as a Climate Refuge
    (University of Minnesota Duluth, 2022) Haynes, Monica; Nichols Dauner, Kim; Grensing, Gina Chiodi; Palmquist, Ben; Ye, Daniel; Jones, Jacque
    In March 2019, Dr. Jesse Keenan—formerly of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University —introduced the slogan “Duluth: The Most Climate-Proof City in America” (Keenan, 2019). He suggested that city officials should market Duluth to people relocating from climate-impacted regions, citing Duluth’s (Minnesota) cool climate, inland location, and access to fresh water as factors that make Duluth more resilient to the future impacts of climate change. Despite high levels of media attention, the literature is just beginning to address climate migration not owing to sea-level rise; the migration toward climate-friendly “destination cities” like Duluth; the perceptions of those in destination cities; and policy, social, and economic factors that could pull people toward destination cities. Given the gaps in the literature, our research sought to examine the potential social, environmental, and economic impacts of climate migration on receiving communities like Duluth through interviews with stakeholders. In total, we interviewed 18 individuals including people from climate advocacy groups, city and state governments, tribal communities, higher education, businesses, and the energy sector, and those who were clergy, researchers and climate scientists, biologists, landscape architects, and funders. Some participants represented multiple areas. Participants talked about existing community concerns, the most prominent being housing and racial and socioeconomic equity. The participants cited community assets as well including social capital and aspects of infrastructure related to Duluth, which once had a larger population.
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    The Salvation Army Needs Assessment
    (University of Minnesota Duluth, 2021) Haynes, Monica; Chiodi Grensing, Gina; Ye, Daniel; Palmquist, Ben
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    St. Louis County Benefits Cliff Visualization
    (University of Minnesota Duluth, 2021) Haynes, Monica; Chiodi Grensing, Gina; Ye, Daniel; Palmquist, Ben