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Minnesota Fast Facts:
- Number of the country's top 1,000 publicly traded companies headquartered in MN: 36
- Major industries:
- Tourism
- Agriculture
- Computers and services
- Healthcare and medical equipment
- Forest and forestry products
- Printing and publishing
- Major employers:
- Target
- United Health Group
- 3M
- US Bancorp
- Best Buy
- General Mills
- The Nielsen Media Research group ranked the Twin Cities as the nation's 15th largest media market.
Minnesota boasts a well-informed, socially conscious, healthy, and highly educated public. Its population exceeds 5 million, mainly concentrated in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Twin Cities area enjoys a per capita income of $40,915, well above the national average. Other major cities include Rochester, Duluth, and Bloomington.
Minnesota's economic diversity makes it an ideal place to seek career training or enter a degree program. Minnesotans work and study hard, but also break for exercise (the state leads the nation in percentage of people who work out regularly). And they enjoy the nation's second-longest life expectancies coupled with lowest premature death rates. They also love a healthy environment. A leader in renewable energy, Minnesota recently mandated the development of an ethanol fuel and a biodiesel blend. With 812 megawatts' worth installed, the state also generates the fourth largest wind power output in the nation.
Minnesota's economic diversity makes it an ideal place to seek career training or enter a degree program. Minnesotans work and study hard, but also break for exercise (the state leads the nation in percentage of people who work out regularly). And they enjoy the nation's second-longest life expectancies coupled with lowest premature death rates. They also love a healthy environment. A leader in renewable energy, Minnesota recently mandated the development of an ethanol fuel and a biodiesel blend. With 812 megawatts' worth installed, the state also generates the fourth largest wind power output in the nation.
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