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Posts tagged as “labor”

ACA Reduces Labor Supply, Increases Liberty

Jana and I are quite happy to see the Affordable Care Act working just the way we expected to end job lock. We are dismayed to see the media working as we have come to expect, getting the story wrong…

Superintendents: Teacher Shortage Real, Low Pay Reducing Qualified Applicants

A new survey finds school superintendents across South Dakota telling ostrichian Republican legislators, "No, really: South Dakota is short on teachers!" The survey, prepared by USD professor Mark Baron in collaboration with the Associated School Boards and the School Administrators…

Obama Beats Bushes on Private-Sector Job Growth; Public Sector Shrinks

Calculated Risk offers two instructive charts on private-sector and public-sector job growth under the last five presidents. First, the private sector: So far, the economy has created more private-sector jobs under President Barack Obama (dark blue line) than it did…

Meet Workforce Needs with Good Wages

My Vulcan friend Jim Sheehan reads the December 5 press release from the Board of Regents and finds it illogical: ...[T]he South Dakota Board of Regents... predicts a shortage of home grown college graduates to meet a projected demand from…

Bosworth Clinic Loses Another Employee Claiming Unpaid Wages

Marion Michael Rounds claims that his Senate primary opponents aren't working hard enough. Annette Bosworth may be working hard making cardboard replicas of Rounds, but she's evidently not working hard enough back at her clinic to make payroll. I have…