Ignored along with low wages in Governor Dennis Daugaard's Workforce Summits: Indians. With thousands of Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people on South Dakota's reservations shut out of South Dakota's workforce, the Governor held none of his six Workforce Summits in…
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I don't always reprint press releases, but when I do, it's because they're useful. South Dakota Democratic Party exec Zach Crago offers—with more evidence and hyperlinks than we ever get from the dreary stream of GOP dreck—five good reasons to…
KELO notes Google's claim that the search giant helped generate $55.6 million in economic activity in South Dakota in 2013. According to Google's nationwide economic report, that's the third-lowest amount of Googly economic activity, behind only Alaska and North Dakota.…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds another show vote tomorrow to boost the Keystone XL pipeline. Big Oil and friends are thus cranking out a little extra Keystone XL baloney. Prairie Business offers up the American Petroleum Institute's…
Speaking of favors for Big Money, economist Mark Thoma points out how America's preference for corporate welfare left us with lingering recession hangover. Thoma explains that the 2008 recession was a "balance-sheet recession." The housing bubble popped, the financial sector…
Before the 2014 Legislative session, the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations had two University of Nebraska–Kearney profs study the potential impacts of Medicaid expansion in South Dakota. Today the South Dakota Budget and Policy Project finally posted that December…
Senator John Thune thinks that 65% of Americans want the Keystone XL pipeline. Maybe 65% of Americans say that, but that "support" may signal that they don't understand the real effects the pipeline would have. Consider this subsequent poll that…