Minnesota’s minimum wage rises to $9.50 an hour today, capping a three-phase increase from $6.15 an hour prior to 2014. Small employers—firms with annual revenues under $500K—get…
Tag: economy
Conservative wags are dancing on the graves of the 84 victims of the Nice massacre by challenging liberals to call for truck control: “I fully expect…
Speaking of the man I will replace in the South Dakota Senate, David Novstrup said raising the minimum wage would bring all sorts of bad economic consequences. He…
Veteran commodities trader John Tsitrian says the British exit from the European Union bodes ill for South Dakota, whose export-oriented businesses depend on global stability and…
The British are Leaving! The British are Leaving! Great Britain voted yesterday to leave the European Union. Prime Minister David Cameron, who argued hard for Britain…
Pat Powers mumbled something this morning about needing the Dakota Access pipeline to free up rail cars for agriculture products. But the decreased railroad volumes…
Governor Dennis Daugaard showed signs this winter that he was abandoning the fantasy that South Dakota’s mythical low cost of living made up for South Dakota’s low…
If part of Donald Trump’s appeal is his promise of strength and prosperity to an economically anxious middle class, then we could really use an upswing in the…
Throughout my blogging, I have consistently turned to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center’s posting of cost-of-living data from the Council for Community and Economic…
Sanford Health exerts a lot of political pull in South Dakota (pull which will be tested by its current effort to undo the will of…