This is no lie—Senator David Novstrup has helped me recruit good campaign help and turn at least one Republican into a Democrat. Writing up Referred Law 20, Novstrup’s plan…
Tag: minimum wage
My State Senator just called me a liar. Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) shared a pleasant lunch with 29 of our neighbors and Secretary of State…
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…
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…
Minnesota’s minimum wage rises to $9.50 an hour today, capping a three-phase increase from $6.15 an hour prior to 2014. Small employers—firms with annual revenues under $500K—get…
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…
Speaking of the man I will replace in the South Dakota Senate, David Novstrup said raising the minimum wage would bring all sorts of bad economic consequences. He…
Aberdeen American News business reporter Victoria Lusk (boy, I don’t know which AAN scribe has the better superhero alias, Victoria Lusk or Shannon Marvel) grinds out…
Now I get it: David Novstrup is quitting the Senate now because he wants to wait six years for the apparent lack of short-term impacts of the…
Governing posts unemployment data that might make David Novstrup think his youth minimum wage was a good idea. According to new U.S. Department of Labor data for…