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,…
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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…
Yesterday I published the list of blog stories that drew the most comments in 2015. Today, I offer the list of stories that drew the most…
EB-5, Islam, legislative religious posturing, philosophy, racism, and hemp—those are among the topics that got you talking the most on this blog in 2015! Below are…
Via Wonkblog, I learn the Census just issued new state population estimates for 2015! Whoo-hoo! What do we learn about South Dakota? As of July 1,…
Your Department of Labor and Regulation tweets a cute infographic showing the South Dakota equivalent average wages for Santa’s helpers at the North Pole. Naturally, such South Dakota…
Governing looks at Census data on county industry reliance and population changes and finds some correlations that indicate challenges for economic growth in South Dakota. Counties relying heavily on retirement…
The Black Hills Pioneer posts a list of the ten best counties in South Dakota for incoming investment, based on an index created by New York-based Smart…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students offers a couple of helpful charts to illustrate the hole we’ve dug for our state funding of K-12…
Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute offers some national teacher job numbers that show that public layoffs in response to the recession have left the U.S.…