The Department of Labor and Regulation released results of its latest Employee Benefits Survey yesterday. Among other highlights, 50% of firms responding to the survey…
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According to the latest figures available from the South Dakota Department of Labor, there were 15,480 more South Dakotans with jobs in November 2018 than…
Who are South Dakota’s biggest employers? Hospitals, government, and grocers: One out of five of your neighbors works for one of our three big hospital…
In response to a post I shared about the impact of the Trump shutdown on hundreds of thousands of public servants, State Senator Stace Nelson…
Hat tip to South DaCola! The Republican spin machine backed its boy Paul TenHaken in the Sioux Falls mayoral race last spring by portraying his…
Fake-wrestling promoter and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon came to South Dakota this week to tell some Trumpy lies: Her visit to DeGeest Steel Works…
When drugmaker Bayer set out to acquire seedmaker Monsanto, it said the merger would create jobs. Now, less than six months after sealing the deal,…
Wages are up down on the farm! New stats from USDA show hired hands in the Northern Plains Region (ND, SD, NE, KS) made 7%…
Knowing they can’t win on South Dakota issues or their personalities, Republicans are desperate to make South Dakota’s 2018 election about national issues that our…
One of my District 3 ticketmates, Democratic House candidate Justin Roemmick, includes the $15 minimum wage in his pro-worker platform. I’ve thought that we might…