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…
Tag: economy
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:…
South Dakota’s gross domestic product shrank by 1.7% in 2020. That’s better than the national pandemic recession of 3.5% in 2020. We also led the…
Coronavirus itself didn’t pose much direct threat to farmers’ operations. Most of their work is socially distanced already, and we all have kept eating right…
This spring, Canadian pipeliner Enbridge is upgrading its Line 3 oil pipeline that crosses northern Minnesota on its way from Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin. In…
Governor Kristi Noem is casting her latest attention grab as a fight for fairness for women. If she were serious about defending women, she’d have…
President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, finally approved by our hard-working Congress yesterday, isn’t just good for kids and their families. It’s good for all…
Wind turbines and federal checks have saved South Dakota’s economy from tanking and helped Governor Noem fabricate a mostly unearned budget surplus. But the Governor’s…