Along with his guest column yesterday, law professor and South Dakota Task Force on Trust Administration and Review member Thomas Simmons sent me an infographic Lemonly of…
Tag: wages
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee gets to hear from the Department of Corrections on Wednesday on what it’s doing to fill its growing empty positions. According…
A week and a half ago, Governor Kristi Noem told disgruntled state penitentiary workers that she can’t raise their pay with one-time money (“…salary policy has…
Following her meeting with State Penitentiary staff about their complaints about long overtime hours, low pay, and poor working conditions, Governor Kristi Noem took questions…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) gets a keen example of how South Dakota loses talent due to low wages from his economics classroom at Augustana:…
So the state fails to give State Penitentiary guards enough pay and support, and the Governor suspends the Warden and the Corrections Secretary? An anonymous…
America added 850,000 new jobs last month, the best gain in ten months and, like many other data points amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a historically…
The Board of Educational Standards learned Thursday that the vo-techs (which are now technically colleges) they oversee continue to see nearly the vast majority of…
Now that Dr. Fauci and the CDC say that vaccinated Americans can ditch masks and social distancing, restaurants can expect a surge in business. To…
Some of the workers causing South Dakota’s housing crunch are the white-flight cops our Governor has been recruiting. But a WalletHub analysis indicates that South…