South Dakota business owners predicted a variety of problems would arise from the voters’ 2014 decision to raise our minimum wage from the federal $7.25 per hour…
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The South Dakota Democratic Party gave South Dakotans the opportunity to vote on raising South Dakota’s minimum wage in 2014. Voters responded by approving a 17% increase in…
Just days after 150-some Aberdeen residents gathered to hear a California speaker rally them to reject refugee resettlement and the recruiting of immigrant laborers, a major Huron…
The Partnership for a New American Economy has just issued a series of reports on the “Contributions of New Americans” in all fifty states and…
A lawsuit over West Virginia’s new anti-labor “right-to-work” law helps us understand what’s at stake in South Dakota’s Initiated Measure 23, the fair-share union dues proposal.…
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump announces his economic plan today. Well, maybe not his plan, but the plan cooked up by twelve rich men and…
The Board of Regents continues to push the magical concept of “degree production.” Bob Mercer reports that the Regents spent three hours yesterday at their River Rock…
SDPB broadcasts opposing views on Referred Law 20, the youth minimum wage cut we get to vote down in November. SDPB’s new Rapid City correspondent…
Jodi Schwan talks with retiring Sioux Falls Development Foundation workforce development specialist Mary Medema about what it takes to meet the demand for labor in Sioux…
I generally resist blogging about anyone’s divorce, child custody, or child support issues. Writing about such family disagreements usually brings nothing but trouble. However, a fellow teacher…