South Dakota’s unemployment rate in February was 2.9%, the same as it was in February 2020, before coronavirus broke out. That’s a swift recovery from…
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Governor Kristi Noem eagerly announces the infusion of more federal money into South Dakota’s economy, this time in the form of $5,000,000 in Coronavirus Relief…
The Minneapolis Fed discusses a working paper that crunched cell phone location data in New York City to find that low-income Americans and minorities are…
President Joe Biden is doing what he can to improve our physical and economic health. Wanting to make sure you know whom to thank for…
Coronavirus has posed greater health risks to older people than to younger people. According to the CDC, coronavirus hasn’t killed anyone under 30 in our…
Five years ago when we officially removed the name of white colonial Indian massacre-er General William S. Harney from South Dakota’s highest peak and replaced it…
I worry that the Department of Social Services may be about to lose a really good lawyer. Last May, I reported that the Department of…
The St. Louis Federal Reserve summarizes new research on government action, state capacity, and the spread of coronavirus. The research finds that bigger, more robust…
In this week’s White-Mansplaining file, Senator Marion Michael Rounds tells us why he thinks Congresswoman Deb Haaland, member of the Laguna Pueblo and now confirmed…
Governor Kristi Noem made a big show of rejecting some federal unemployment assistance last summer, complete with misrepresentations of data. Of course, she also misrepresented…