Make that eight arguments…. On December 23, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported gross domestic product figures for each state from Quarter 2 to Quarter…
Tag: statistics
So far in my compilation of economic facts that call into question Governor Kristi Noem’s repeated claim that “South Dakota has the strongest economy in…
Well-traveled New York Times graphics editors Gus Wezerek and Yaryna Serkez put together a fun quiz helping people figure out where they should live. Either I’m…
A couple weeks ago, KELO-TV reported that South Dakota has 29,000 job openings advertised online in the state’s SDWorks database. This morning that figure is 28,294.…
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…
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.…