Meade County has been having trouble recruiting and retaining law enforcement workers. As with most of South Dakota’s workforce shortages, the solution to Meade County’s…
Posts tagged as “wages”
And again, don’t blame workers and wages for inflation! Down on the farm, a new Purdue study finds that farm wages increased more slowly last year…
South Dakota state government is surrendering to inflation. The Department of Transportation is giving its railroad lawyer a retroactive 18% raise to $450 an hour:…
What does a business degree get for a business? Not much besides a shift of wealth from workers: in both the US and Denmark, when…
CGL Companies’ review of South Dakota’s Department of Corrections, released Tuesday amidst the overwhelming storm of attention to the Ravnsborg impeachment, focuses most of its…
In the undercard to Beth Warden’s prison food story, we learn that Governor Kristi Noem’s 2021 prison purge and reform posturing appear not to have…
Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation has found the magic solution to the workforce shortage—raise wages: Last summer, starting lifeguard pay was $10.50 per hour. The…
A Minneapolis Fed article reinforces an economic point I made last month: higher wages for workers aren’t driving inflation. Nonlabor inputs, like raw materials, are…
In another win for workers, protest from Corrections employees who were promised fairer holiday pay last summer but saw no action from the Governor has…
Remember Noem’s big summer purge of the Corrections Department and her big talk about reforms to support guards and other prison workers? Well, evidently, Noem’s…