With some Sioux Falls activists considering placing a $15/hour minimum wage on the 2020 ballot, we may get the chance to hear the Novstrups again…
Tag: economics
Aberdonians interested in keeping the Hub City growing have a treat coming: Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari is holding a town hall here at the…
Kristi Noem likes to pretend that funding the federal government is just like her kitchen-table economics (which she couldn’t make work without huge infusions of federal…
G. Mark Mickelson sponsored Initiated Measure 25, the buck-a-pack tobacco tax hike, with the promise of putting up to $20 million a year into vo-tech…
As bad as Donald Trump has made things for South Dakota agriculture, our farmers and ranchers are actually suffering less than their colleagues everywhere else…
Charging $500 per ticket and $5,000 a photo almost guarantees that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem won’t be listening to any real, working South Dakota…
The other day I noticed that Holabird political expert Nick Nemec claimed on Facebook that “contrary to recent reports,” he actually coined the term “priming the pump.” I didn’t…
The New York Times features a new economic risk calculator that tells me my white, educated family has only an 8.4% chance of falling into poverty over…
Now I get it: David Novstrup is quitting the Senate now because he wants to wait six years for the apparent lack of short-term impacts of the…
Unlike most Republicans, Donald Trump is a fascist. But like most Republicans running for President, Donald Trump is a fantasist on fiscal policy, peddling the same…