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…
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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…
As they open South Dakota News Watch‘s analysis of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on South Dakota’s small towns, Nick Lowrey and Bart Pfankuch find…
Unlike Donald Trump, Joe Biden has a plan for rebuilding the economy amidst coronavirus: Trump’s Democratic challenger is promising to guarantee testing for the virus…
The Legislative Research Council this week issued the best monthly state revenue report I’ve ever read. I superlativize not because the numbers are particularly good—South…
We can’t just restart the economy by restarting the economy. Work and sales and GDP won’t get back to normal until we beat the coronavirus…