Throughout my blogging, I have consistently turned to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center’s posting of cost-of-living data from the Council for Community and Economic…
Tag: statistics
Want some numerical nitty-gritty to go with your debate over House Bill 1182 today? Check out this chart showing the average teacher pay in every South…
As we head toward a second day of possibly enlightening but likely truncated floor debate on House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s sales tax hike to fund…
My post last week attempting to explain the new Blue Ribbon K-12 funding formula proposed by Governor Daugaard in Senate Bill 131 drew plenty fire from folks…
Update 2016.02.12 12:39 CST: Following strong reader interest and critique, I have built on the following calculations to include the small-school adjustment and English language learning factors in…
Counties had a good news/bad news week in Pierre. Senate Bill 2, which would give counties a portion of alcohol tax revenues, made it through its first…
Sanford Health exerts a lot of political pull in South Dakota (pull which will be tested by its current effort to undo the will of…
Don’t knock my house down yet, bulldozer drivers! I spoke too soon about the quality of work done by Initiated Measure 23’s petition circulators. Secretary of…
New analysis from the National Association of Counties finds that more counties regained relatively healthy pre-recession levels of unemployment, economic output, and housing prices in 2015 than in 2014. However,…
Speaking of teacher pay, Bob Mercer posts some economic data that helps put South Dakota’s miserly teacher salaries in perspective: Following the revisions South Dakota’s…