My Friday post on South Dakota’s non-unique work ethic got me thinking about how we might actually measure work ethic. One measure of work is…
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U-Haul has published its latest annual Growth Index, telling us which states saw the largest influxes of folks moving via U-Haul and which saw the…
John Tsitrian contributes the latest evidence that Governor Kristi Noem’s frequently repeated claim that South Dakota has “the strongest economy in America” is flat wrong:…
The Department of Education released its K-12 fall enrollment figures for 2022 last week. The numbers show 607 more kids going to South Dakota’s public…
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…
The economic analysis of the Sioux Empire Fairgrounds prepared by Minneapolis consultancy CSL International and Tennessee fairgrounds architect Charles D. Smith includes a couple more statistical nuggets…
President Joe Biden’s pardon of pot possessors appears to scrub federal convictions from 6,577 citizens’ records. The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s tally supports the argument that marijuana…
On Friday, Governor Kristi Noem exhorted people to “Join me in continuing to support our robust tourism industry” and “welcome and encourage every visitor to…
South Dakotans produced 2.0% more goods and services per hour worked in 2021 than they did in 2020. That’s 21st-highest in the U.S., but alas,…
How can “the strongest economy in the nation” not have the strongest job growth in the nation? The Bureau of Labor Statistics released August job…