Republicans like Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) have been stirring false fears that the Biden Administration’s economic recovery efforts are causing drastic inflation. Just look at…
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America added 850,000 new jobs last month, the best gain in ten months and, like many other data points amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a historically…
According to data on “financial fragility” from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking, Americans have been getting a little better at keeping…
A friend is having trouble generating momentum on a reform campaign in South Dakota and asked me why that might be. I would suggest that…
Partisan fearmonger Senator Jim Bolin must be excited to see his dire warnings of inflation gain some support from current economic data showing prices rising…
The wind power building boom saved South Dakota’s bacon in 2020, pumping tens of millions of extra tax dollars into state coffers. But somehow that…
While Governor Kristi Noem makes more Presidential campaign noise about civics curriculum that she hasn’t read, she ignores the fundamental and long-standing weaknesses of the…
Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors member David Chicoine tells WNAX that South Dakota probably won’t see the same explosive post-pandemic GDP growth as the nation…
South Dakota’s unemployment ticked down to 2.8% in April, meaning the difficulty you’ll have finding available workers is about the same as it’s been in…
Governor Kristi Noem is treating South Dakota’s chronic labor shortage as a pretext for cutting off pandemic unemployment benefits to South Dakotans, effective June 26:…