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…
Tag: economy
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…
Capping seven years of Obamanomics, the United States added 292,000 jobs in December. Among growing industries is health care: In December, health care employment rose by…
New analysis from the National Association of Counties finds that more counties regained relatively healthy pre-recession levels of unemployment, economic output, and housing prices in 2015 than in 2014. However,…
Mike Maciag of Governing posts this really instructive chart on the share of state revenues borne by individuals and corporations paying state income taxes: Back in 1950,…
John Tsitrian reads an RCJ updated version of Bob Mercer’s report on South Dakota’s growing economy and notices what didn’t happen: South Dakota’s 17% increase in the minimum wage…
In last night’s Democratic Presidential debate, Senator Bernie Sanders explained that the fear to which the Republicans are playing with fascist xenophobia really stems from economic anxiety created by…
The billions of dollars the Department of Agriculture credits to agriculture are magic math. South Dakota’s entire GDP is only $45.9 billion. Agriculture cannot generate 55% of…
As Senator Bernie Sanders will tell you, the Republican war on the middle class is bad for democracy and for capitalism. But could the GOP’s class warfare have…