The 5.8% statutory pay raise legislators will get in 2021 (that’s $688.40 more for each legislator, to $12,580.80 for the nine-week Session, only one week…
Tag: economy
Dr. Michael Osterholm, really smart Minnesota epidemiologist and member of Preisdent-Elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force, says paying workers to stay home would make a…
South Dakota may be a great place to do business, but it seems workers don’t have the time to put out fires: As volunteers leave…
Back in July a friend and I debated the “cure worse than the disease” question: does restricting economic activity to control the coronavirus pandemic produce…
Sure, choose not to lock down in response to coroanvirus, and you’ll have lower unemployment. You’ll also have more sickness and death: Five of the…
Our wise vote to raise and index the minimum wage in 2014 will give our lowest-earning workers a little more coronavirus stimulus in 2021. According…
Wired posts a really interesting report on the University of Washington’s Global Burdens of Disease project, which looks at who gets sick from what worldwide…
Donald Trump’s example notwithstanding, acting in your self-interest isn’t always bad. For instance, if you’re still trying to figure out for whom to cast your…
Whatever the experts say, do the opposite—such appears to be Donald Trump’s plan for the remainder of his time in the White House. Yesterday morning,…
More on the K-shaped recovery: jobs that pay better wages are more likely to facilitate telework than the jobs on the frontline of the pandemic…