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Posts tagged as “wages”

South Dakota Loses Farms, Pays Hired Hands Well

Chuck Clement reads the USDA's latest report on Farms and Land in Farms and finds South Dakota lost 300 farms last year. That's a return to the long-term trend that South Dakota was briefly bucking: fewer farms, bigger operations. 37…

Graves Feigns Ambivalence, Wants Fewer Darn Teachers

Mitchell school superintendent Dr. Joseph Graves admits that he's ambivalent about Governor Dennis Daugaard's proposed summer study of education... which, for a guy who has flacked for the Governor's worst policy whims, could be read as stern condemnation. But I'm…

Senate Appropriations Agrees Higher Pay Recruits More Legislators

The South Dakota Senate is on its way to agreeing with the House that the primary cause of shortages of teachers and other workers is low pay. Yesterday, Senate Appropriations approved Senate Bill 170, which would raise legislator pay from…

Higher Wages Draw More Talent to Legislature, Say Legislators

The House State Affairs Committee voted unanimously yesterday to pass three bills that could put more money in legislators' pockets. Are raises for teachers next? House Bill 1145 would give legislators the per diem reimbursement (currently $123) for attending the…

Moonshot Teacher Pay Plan Makes Mainstream Press

Patrick Anderson features my moonshot plan to raise teacher pay $10,000, to 34th in the nation, on the education e-pages of that Sioux Falls paper. My plan secures that monumental raise, around $92 million a year spread among about 9,200…