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Posts tagged as “economy”

South Dakota Job Growth Over Past Year 1.4%; Minnesota, 1.8%

Governing posts Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing job growth over the past twelve months in all fifty states. Without counting North Dakota's dangerous and poorly regulated Bakken job boom, South Dakota is slogging along in the middle among its…

Vermont’s Sanders Preaches Weilandesque Working-Class Politics

Independent-Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is awfully popular among progressives. He may run for President in 2016. Our modern Eugene V. Debs tells NPR that Democrats could get their traction back by rediscovering the working class: ...people look out and they…

Minnesota Raises Minimum Wage, Jobs Keep Growing

My readers at South Dakota Magazine may not think minimum wage workers deserve any consideration, but fortunately, they are in the minority. Thanks to the good sense of 55% of South Dakota voters, minimum wage workers will get a raise…