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…
Tag: wages
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…
Also on the Meade County Commission agenda Tuesday are personnel actions, including the hiring of nine new employees at $17.50 an hour: $17.50 an hour…
“South Dakota is not successful because of government,” said Kristi Noem as she took a break from her coast-to-coast Presidential campaign to deliver a budget…
School Bus Inc. is starting drivers at $19.50 an hour and offering sign-on bonuses of up to $4,000 for qualified drivers. Even that pretty good pay…
Kelby Krabbenhoft made medically incorrect statements that undermined Sanford Health’s mission to protect public health, and Sanford Health had to give him $49.5 million to…
In July, Governor Kristi Noem started purging prison staff and dug into one-time money to temporarily offer retention bonuses and raise pay in hopes of addressing a…