Hey! David Novstrup! Did you read your Governing update this morning? I opened my copy and thought I’d found one little shred of data that might,…
Tag: statistics
But No Statewide Depression Yet? The Black Hills Knowledge Network notices new Bureau of Economic Analysis data that show personal income in South Dakota grew $480 million last…
Attorney General Marty Jackley continues to signal to Congresswoman Kristi Noem that she’d better not try running against him on crime. Our A.G. offers this…
Lake Area Technical Institute isn’t just the best vo-tech/community college in the country in the eyes of the Aspen Institute. They appear to be the…
The Appropriations Committee documents include this table of total property values in South Dakota from 2011 through 2016 (payable 2012 through 2017). In 2011, in the…
Headlines should match their photos, right? One, two, three… yesterday’s Aberdeen job fair sure doesn’t look crowded. The 175 folks laid off by Molded Fiber Glass last month must all…
Your economic puzzle for the day comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which finds that, in the third quarter of 2016, South Dakota had…
SB 141 Lowers Burdens on Poor Parents, Increases Child Support Obligations Less Than Cost of Living…
…and Other Number Crunching! Senate Bill 141, the update of South Dakota child support laws delayed last month by misguided anti-child-support activists, comes before Senate Judiciary tomorrow (Tuesday)…
“…the disaster that’s been Obamacare…” So says a Republican Congressman on NPR this morning. That hyperbole matches the language Senator Mike Rounds uses about the Affordable…
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones nicely defends the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from Fox News’s latest poorly sourced and exaggerated attack on our efforts to help our neighbors eat. The…