South Dakota had more than twice as many people out of work in June as in March before coronavirus took over, and the pandemic recession…
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Stick a fork in the Royal Fork—they’re done: Royal Fork Buffet is closing after almost four decades in Sioux Falls, unable to overcome changes in…
I really like South Dakota. I wouldn’t stay here if I didn’t. But Governor Kristi Noem’s latest ad campaign to exploit the coronavirus pandemic to…
While Donald Trump turns the Rose Garden into a campaign stage for elaborate and failed visual aids, the coronavirus economy is approaching critical points that…
Our response to coronavirus hasn’t bankrupted the country yet. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, every state saw its Gross Domestice Product decline in…
Strangely, my sense of social distancing has not translated into calling and writing people more often. Quite the reverse: locking down our household has reinforced…
Booking.com’s Open Table offers statistics on the restaurant industry in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany. Open Table reports…
Despite outbreaks of coronavirus at meat factories across South Dakota and the nation, neither pandemic nor plant shutdowns appear to be leading to the foodpocalypse…
A 13% drop in sales tax revenue would usually sound a four-alarm fiscal fire. But in times of coronavirus, Sioux Falls leaders can look at…
Harvard researchers are developing a new, faster way to gauge America’s economic activity amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker (OI) uses near-real-time…