Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation has found the magic solution to the workforce shortage—raise wages: Last summer, starting lifeguard pay was $10.50 per hour. The…
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Contrary to Republican bushwah, the “tyranny” of vaccine mandates has not caused a shortage of health care workers at rural hospitals: Rural hospital officials who…
Last night the Sioux Falls City Council approved $2,000 bonuses for most of its full-time employees, a $17.50 minimum wage for city employees, a $500…
Our legislature has hoghoused—i.e., “amended extensively“—just two bills so far. But Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is proposing an honest-to-goodness hoghouse bill to make work…
Governor Kristi Noem has flattened the curve of vacancies in the Department of Corrections. According to DOC officials speaking to the Joint Appropriations Committee in…
In another win for workers, protest from Corrections employees who were promised fairer holiday pay last summer but saw no action from the Governor has…
In keeping with our economic dependence on socialism, government employs more South Dakotans than any other industry sector. According to the Bureau of Finance and…
Senators Mike Rounds and John Thune have both advocated making more visas available for foreign workers willing to come work seasonal jobs here in labor-starved…
The biggest issue causing the workforce shortage is something that President Joe Biden wants to fix but which South Dakota’s Republican leaders have resisted—more affordable…