More Citizens Driven to Public Assistance Under Rounds and Daugaard
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...
View ArticleReal South Dakota Unemployment Rate, Including Indians: Over 14%?
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...
View ArticleState Labor Supply Seems to Under-Count Available Indian Workers
I continue to try to nail down how well South Dakota includes the American Indian population in its unemployment data. Following my weekend calculation that ignoring unemployment on the reservation...
View ArticleSDGOP 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...
View ArticleReservation Jobs, Take 2: Parity with Whites Would Put 8,900 Indians to Work
A couple weeks ago, I mashed together some population and jobs numbers and calculated that South Dakota may undercount unemployment on our American Indian reservations by 57,000, or more than ten...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Midterm Turnout 54%, Lowest in 20 Years
Multiple readers have asked about voter turnout in the midterm election. South Dakota's unofficial turnout Tuesday was 54.17%, the lowest for any general election in the last 22 years. The average...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Vote Map: Correlations with Population, Turnout, and Corinna
The 55% of South Dakotans who made Initiated Measure 18 law this week disagree with Governor Dennis Daugaard's belief that we should not have a minimum wage and should instead live like Okies in The...
View ArticleLife Not as Bad on South Dakota Reservations as in Appalachian Kentucky
The Nee York Times turns some socioeconomic statistics into a map of the quality of life in every county in the United States. Looking at "education (percentage of residents with at least a bachelor’s...
View ArticleSmaller Schools See Largest Gains and Loss from Open Enrollment
The South Dakota Department of Education gives love to policy wonks and spreadsheet addicts with this boffo page of K-12 data designed for reference during the 2015 Legislative Session. I hereby take...
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South Dakota 1% Take More than Half of New Post-Recession Income; Teachers...
Todd Epp posts data on what it takes to be a member of the 1% in South Dakota—$404,010. That threshold for earning more than 99% of South Dakotans is higher than the national threshold of $380,000 and...
View ArticleMore Citizens Driven to Public Assistance Under Rounds and Daugaard
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...
View ArticleReal South Dakota Unemployment Rate, Including Indians: Over 14%?
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...
View ArticleState Labor Supply Seems to Under-Count Available Indian Workers
I continue to try to nail down how well South Dakota includes the American Indian population in its unemployment data. Following my weekend calculation that ignoring unemployment on the reservation...
View ArticleSDGOP 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...
View ArticleReservation Jobs, Take 2: Parity with Whites Would Put 8,900 Indians to Work
A couple weeks ago, I mashed together some population and jobs numbers and calculated that South Dakota may undercount unemployment on our American Indian reservations by 57,000, or more than ten...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Midterm Turnout 54%, Lowest in 20 Years
Multiple readers have asked about voter turnout in the midterm election. South Dakota's unofficial turnout Tuesday was 54.17%, the lowest for any general election in the last 22 years. The average...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Vote Map: Correlations with Population, Turnout, and Corinna
The 55% of South Dakotans who made Initiated Measure 18 law this week disagree with Governor Dennis Daugaard's belief that we should not have a minimum wage and should instead live like Okies in The...
View ArticleLife Not as Bad on South Dakota Reservations as in Appalachian Kentucky
The Nee York Times turns some socioeconomic statistics into a map of the quality of life in every county in the United States. Looking at "education (percentage of residents with at least a bachelor’s...
View ArticleSmaller Schools See Largest Gains and Loss from Open Enrollment
The South Dakota Department of Education gives love to policy wonks and spreadsheet addicts with this boffo page of K-12 data designed for reference during the 2015 Legislative Session. I hereby take...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South Dakota 1% Take More than Half of New Post-Recession Income; Teachers...
Todd Epp posts data on what it takes to be a member of the 1% in South Dakota—$404,010. That threshold for earning more than 99% of South Dakotans is higher than the national threshold of $380,000 and...
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