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Posts tagged as “population”

Senate Defines “Rural” More Broadly for Teacher Recruitment Than House

The Presidents' Day crackerbarrel in Redfield drew a good comment from a local school board member who would like the Legislature to help his district recruit more teachers. The Legislature currently has two competing rural teacher recruitment proposals. House Bill…

Missing Element of South Dakota Workforce Plan: Immigration

The obvious solution to South Dakota's vo-tech workforce shortage is higher wages. But if our business and political leaders are committed to ignoring that option, perhaps we can consider another solution: immigrants. The Pew Charitable Trusts just issued a report…

Sioux Falls 11th Fastest Growing City in U.S.; Fargo 7th

Growth is great, right, cancer? Sioux Falls continues to be one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. According to Census data complied by Governing's Mike Maciag, Sioux Falls added 4,446 residents from July 2012 to July 2013. That's 2.8%…

South Dakota Misses 50 Best Small Towns List; Minnesota Has 3

CNN Money lists what they call the 50 best small towns in the United States. They fail to include anyplace in South Dakota on that list. Seriously? Have you people not been to Spearfish?! The survey looked at towns with…

South Dakota Median Age Grows More Slowly Than National Median

South Dakota is getting older, but not as fast as the rest of the country. Governing reports on new Census data showing that, from 2010 to 2012, the number of South Dakotans aged 65 and over increased by 4.8%, while…

Rural America Declines to 46.2 Million

An eager reader points me toward a USDA analysis that should distress anyone interested in economic development in South Dakota: for the first time, non-metro countries in the United States have experienced a net population loss. 46.2 million of us…