In his proposal to include American Indians in our workforce initiatives, Rep. Steve Hickey says, "South Dakota celebrates a low unemployment rate only because tribal unemployment statistics are excluded. The real unemployment rate in South Dakota which include tribal unemployment…
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For more on the Rounds-Daugaard legacy, we turn to Todd Epp, who cites Census figures to report that the number and percentage of South Dakotans receiving public assistance since 2000 has gone up: In 2000, an estimated 4,078 South Dakotans…
Todd Epp of Northern Plains News finds an interesting report from the Tax Foundation stating that South Dakota is the fifth-best state for stretching a dollar: Only Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Alabama can make a dollar go further. Dollars shrink…
Where do you find the most careful people in South Dakota? Faulkton, Cresbard, and Orient: According to state Department of Health data, from 2008 to 2012, Faulk County had the lowest rate of accidental deaths in South Dakota, just an…
Looking for the oldest moms in South Dakota? Odds are you'll find them in Eureka: McPherson County has the highest average age of ladies making babies over the five-year period from 2008 to 2012. New McPherson moms are a ripe…
We spend a lot of time here in the blogosphere looking at South Dakota's wages from different angles: a regional low for workers' earning potential and for median wages, low wages motivating a quarter of our vo-tech grads to leave…
CNBC takes away South Dakota's #1 ranking for business, and KELO-AM's Greg Belfrage, who inclines Daugaard-ward more than I, says our drop from #1 to #11 may say "less about South Dakota than it does about the accuracy and reliability…
The last couple pages of the Legislative Research Council's 2014 Statistical Comparison offer a summary of the funds appropriated by the South Dakota Legislature every year since statehood. The 1890 Legislature appropriated $438,708 to the general fund. In the coming…