Remote online vendors reported and remitted $10.6 million in state sales tax and $3.77 million in city sales tax in July. Online shoppers in Sioux…
Tag: statistics
The silliest, most misleading chart of the week comes from KELO-TV, which compares teacher pay in South Dakota and five adjoining states by showing lower…
On Monday, I wrote that the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed redefinition of “metropolitan area” to include cities no smaller than 100,000 rather than…
Last January, the day before Inauguration, the federal Office of Management and Budget published a recommendation from its Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Standards Review…
Last month I wrote that South Dakota’s Republican leaders are scapegoating pandemic unemployment assistance for the long-standing worker shortage that at least a decade of…
Critics of South Dakota’s economic policies often complain that South Dakota pads its rosy employment reports by failing to count joblessness on our Indian reservations.…
Spreadsheets for breakfast: from the CDC’s latest coronavirus data, as of June 1, here are all of South Dakota’s counties listed by percentage of adults…
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development last week touted another “Best Cities for Young Professionals” list from financial advisors SmartAsset, which ranks Sioux Falls as…
Following up on yesterday’s post about how President Biden’s American Rescue Plan will protect South Dakota’s restaurants and tourism with socialism, I asked Datassential for…
About 44,000 Americans died from gunshots in 2020… so I guess guns are only 9% as dangerous to Americans as coronavirus, and if we don’t…