An eager reader shares a post from Minneapolis high school language arts teacher Ben MacKenzie on how to attract more teachers to K-12 education: I believe…
Tag: wages
A Twitter acquaintance read my Saturday post on Capital One’s closure of its Sioux Falls operation and accused me of belittling the 750 South Dakota workers Capital…
In raw dollars, South Dakota’s $8.50 an hour is the 11th-best in the nation. Nine states and D.C. guarantee a higher basic wage. No neighboring…
In our continuing effort to burst Governor Dennis Daugaard’s hogwash bubble, USA Today notes that South Dakota has no income tax and still ranks us as the eighth worst state…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students meets today in Watertown and tomorrow in Aberdeen (at each town’s Ramkota) to ask citizens to write on sticky notes their…
A new Pew report shows that millennials (ages 18–34) took over from us Generation Xers (ages 35–50) as the largest chunk of the U.S. workforce in…
Trail King CEO Bruce Yakley has a history of blaming everyone else for his workforce troubles. Blame Obama. Blame towns and the state for not working together. Blame…
Some of my teacher friends are tweeting from the Technology & Innovation in Education (TIE) conference in Rapid City. Yesterday conference attendee Sandy Arsenault tweeted Secretary of…
Why go to Mars when you can teach music in Groton? School superintendents Joe Schwan of Groton and Michael Kroll of Warner take to the Aberdeen…
Last week, Marketplace spotlighted a new study from the UC Berkeley Labor Center, which finds that poverty-level wages cost taxpayers $152.8 billion each year in public…