Charges of "liberal media!" against South Dakota's press generally make me snort Cheerios out my nose. But if I were a tremulous conservative, blog posts from not one but two South Dakota reporters might set me shouting about commie cahootsification…
Posts tagged as “income”
South Dakotans made made more money in the first three months of this year, but not much. New Bureau of Economic Analysis data says South Dakota's state personal income increased by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2011 compared to…
A couple weeks ago I expressed my distaste for the cheap patriotism of some of my neighbors who flip out at the idea of soldiers not getting their paychecks but bat not one online eyelash at the prospect of teachers…
Monday's post on personal income growth got me looking at patterns of commuter inflow and outflow in South Dakota. Commuter inflow is the income folks from, say, Lake County, bring home from their jobs in Minnehaha. Commuter outflow is the…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released data on personal income growth in 2009. Nationally, after growth of 4.0% in 2008, personal income shrank 1.7% in 2009. Big counties—those with more than a quarter-million people—seemed to take the recession hardest:…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has tallied personal income by state for 2010. The good news: everybody got richer! Well, every state did. After a really rotten 2009, which brought a 1.7% drop, states saw personal income grow in 2010…
I suppose I shouldn't get too excited about South Dakota's supposedly growing wealth. GDP growth be darned, South Dakota is still home to the most impoverished county in the United States. Take a look at the data from the U.S.…