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SDGOP Claims EB-5 Created “More Than 5,000 Jobs”; Data Say No

Faced with criticism of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rounds's failed Northern Beef Packers plan and his administration's use and abuse of the federal EB-5 visa investment program, the South Dakota Republican Party responded last week with the claim that "The…

Hickey Proposes SD TRADE Workforce Plan for Indians; Redemption for EB-5?

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…

South Dakotans 7th Most Likely to Seek Work out of State

Marketwatch looks at some data from job-search site Indeed.com and declares South Dakota one of the states workers hate: Marketwatch misleads with that heading. Indeed.com's data simply show the percentage of job seekers in each state who search for jobs…

Keystone XL Does Long-Term Damage to U.S. Economy

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…

SDAHO Study: Medicaid Expansion Worth $1.383 Billion, 29,500 Jobs

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…

Don’t Sweat Deficit: Job Creation Should Be Job #1

Lynne Hix DiSanto and other red-meat Republican candidates call for "no deficit spending." Rep. Kristi Noem makes the deficit the centerpiece of her public slideshows. Yet that budget absolutism hamstrings Republicans' ability to focus on solving more urgent problems, like…