The South Dakota Department of Transportation’s draft Carbon Reduction Strategy includes na interesting graph showing the “intuitively obvious” correlation between gross state product and vehicle…
Tag: economy
Davison County’s lengthy new comprehensive plan includes lots of juicy economic data, including this table showing that the World’s Only Corn Palace helps make Mitchell’s…
Last month Governor Kristi Noem cited an article on IRS migration data from The Center Square to support her running gag that South Dakota has a more…
The Davison County Commission will discuss at tonight’s meeting a new economic development plan for the next 20 years. Chapter 7, on the economy of…
Yesterday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed 339,000 jobs added in May, bringing the total new jobs created since President Joe Biden…
In another sign of market failure in South Dakota, capitalists are sitting around waiting for government handouts to build affordable housing: In Jeremy Jensen’s eyes,…
Folks moving to South Dakota do appear to be affecting the housing market—to the good for sellers, to the bad for buyers. According to the…
I’m puzzling over the seeming disconnect between South Dakota’s alleged population growth and its stagnant economy. Governor Kristi Noem has claimed that lots of (good…
While she preens her budget-hawk feathers by rejecting $3 million for climate change planning, Governor Noem isn’t sending back any of the more than $10…
Uh oh—don’t tell Governor Noem and Senator Manchin, but President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act may be working: Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that…