Speaking of teacher pay, Bob Mercer posts some economic data that helps put South Dakota’s miserly teacher salaries in perspective: Following the revisions South Dakota’s…
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Two eager readers provide a serendipitous juxtaposition of articles on handouts. A Republican friend sends me Matt Bruenig’s “Case Against Free College” from the New Republic. Supposing and…
Subtitle: Best Darn Speech of 2016. Jerry Falwell, Jr., required 12,000 Liberty University students to listen to Senator Bernie Sanders make a speech today. A conservative fundagelical…
More from economist Mark Thoma: a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute finds that workers are doing more and not getting paid for it. Over the…
Governing crunches a whole lot of numbers from the IRS to determine where wealth moved in the United States from 2011 to 2012. The IRS data show the…
New research from Federal Reserve experts shows that, for the most part, state taxes undo some of the efforts the federal tax code makes to reduce…
Speaking of dependence on federal handouts, the Black Hills Knowledge Network posted last November that South Dakotans do not claim nearly as much of a housing subsidy via the…