The Pennington County Democrats forward this poster on who stands to benefit from raising the minimum wage. (Hint: it's not just teenagers buying video games!) That poster boils down a boo-yah busload of research from the Economic Policy Institute on…
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Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City) is working hard circulating the petition to put a minimum-wage increase on South Dakota's 2014 ballot. For help, she should enlist uranium profiteer and former Republican legislator Mark Hollenbeck, who gets so busy lobbying…
How did you spend your day at work today? I had a few meetings, caught up on some e-mails, made plans for some projects for the rest of the year. Almost certainly, I had a better day at the office…
South Dakota Chamber of Commerce chief David Owen is trying to tamp down any enthusiasm for South Dakota Democrats' initiative to boost the minimum wage to $8.50 and peg it to inflation. In an interview with WNAX this week, Owen…
Advocates of the South Dakota ballot initiative to raise our minimum wage should read this article from The Next New Deal. The article points to studies and meta-studies (that's studies of studies) showing that raising the minimum wage does not…
Richard Carlbom helped organize the successful campaign to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota (first weddings happen Thursday—but don't check the Target registry!). He may turn his attention to efforts to raise the minimum wage. If he does, he has a…
South Dakotans have good policy reasons to support raising the minimum wage. But South Dakota Democrats and unions looking to place a minimum-wage increase on the 2014 ballot can't just look at what will happen if we raise the minimum…
That Sioux Falls paper gets on the stick and discusses the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and Democrats' plan to place on the 2014 ballot an initiative to raise South Dakota's minimum wage. Reporter Kelly Thurman presents some useful numbers for framing the…