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Posts tagged as “labor”

Turner County Egg Factory Would Bring 6 Million Chickens and Serfdom

South Dakota chickens are apparently slacking off. About 2.63 million chickens laid 752 million eggs in South Dakota last year, but according to the USDA, that's a 4% drop laying chickens and an 8% drop in egg production. Sonstegard Foods…

Huron Investing in Recruiting More Karen Refugees, Making them Managers

What was that I said—wait, that the City of Pierre said—about workers recruited from out of state not sticking around? That's not Huron's experience. Where Pierre's workforce development project is all about cultivating workforce among existing residents, Huron going big…

Pierre Building Local Workforce, Chooses Training over Out-State Marketing

The fourteen community workforce development grants recently approved by the states are heavy on local training. Consider the grant the City of Pierre won. Pierre proposed a $100,000+ two-pronged program. First, Pierre says it needs more truck drivers for construction…

Rapid City Boosters Also Working on Vo-Tech Scholarship Plan

Did you know Governor Dennis Daugaard and billionaire Denny Sanford aren't the only guys proposing a vo-tech scholarship? A month prior to the big announcement of the Build Dakota Scholarship, the Rapid City Economic Development Partnership and other interested Black…

Belle Fourche Tackles Housing Market Failure with Governor’s Houses

The Belle Fourche Development Corporation recently won one of the state's fourteen workforce development grants with an affordable-housing plan that mirrors one proposed on the Madville Times seven years ago. The Belle Fourche housing plan also reveals a fundamental market…