Here’s another question Governor Kristi Noem would find “hostile“: How can the “strongest economy in America” have six of America’s fifteen counties with the highest…
Tag: poverty
As it tries to recruit immigrant labor for the next big slaughterhouse, South Dakota will have trouble standing out as a great place for workers.…
Yeah, this morning’s blog is all S*** My Grandpa Says… because Grandpa Joe says all sorts of Presidential stuff that deserves our attention! …Wall Street did not build…
Emily Tsitrain has a lot at stake in the abortion debate. She’s a woman, and theocratic, misogynist, anti-science regimes like South Dakota and Alabama would…
Bonus data! The January 2019 rural broadband study from Old Dominion and USD comes with beaucoup appendices, which include this table showing racial income disparities…
Instead of talking about raising wages, South Dakota’s corporate-Republican leadership excuses low wages by alleging that it costs less to live here. I’ve regularly explained…
…who can write a 55-page position paper on the impacts of family breakdown and drug abuse on crime and incarceration rates in South Dakota, with…
One solution to solving the scourge of payday lending is to pass Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap, to prevent loan sharks from trapping poor…
Senator Bernie Sanders made all sorts of good points in his speeches in Pine Ridge, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls yesterday (see full video below). Among them, the…
The New York Times features a new economic risk calculator that tells me my white, educated family has only an 8.4% chance of falling into poverty over…