Congresswoman Kristi Noem staged multiple events earlier this winter to create the impression that the Trump tax cuts she voted for would help all sorts…
Tag: wages
…But Better Degree Bonuses in Minnesota Seth Tupper reports on a Georgetown study that finds that, in 2015, people without four-year degrees held 55% of…
AT&T helped Donald Trump propagandize his tax bill this week, claiming some connection between the big corporate tax cuts and the $1,000 bonuses the company…
South Dakota communities have until this Friday, August 18, to get in line for grants from the state’s new “Bulldoze, Build, and Beautify” program. The…
I heard mention of the new Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages on the radio; Bob Mercer was kind enough to provide the link to…
Fearlessly fielding questions from the Sioux Falls Rotary yesterday, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari didn’t just rebuff the local anti-immigrant crowd. He also tweaked Governor…
At his workforce development workshop in Sioux Falls yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard said, “Finding workforce is the key problem that’s faced by employers.” So often…
Speaking of affordable housing, the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that South Dakota has the third most affordable rent in the country. Defining “affordable” as…
South Dakota Codified Law Chapter 11-11 authorizes the South Dakota Housing Development Authority to make up for the failure of the free market to provide sufficient affordable housing and…
One possible reason for South Dakota’s low wages and nationwide, wage stagnation over the past generation: declining union membership. Marketplace visits with Washington University professor Jake Rosenfeld, who…