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Four South Dakota State University faculty members will help improve battery technologies through the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage, a new governor'

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All three members of the state's federal delegation have authored or signed letters in the last month to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling for attention to potential price-fixing schemes by the quartet of major companies processing meat.

Make plans now to tune in to a live South Dakota News Watch panel discussion in which experts share their views on why some state residents are pessimistic about what life will be like for future generations of South Dakotans. In the latest program within its “South Dakota Matters” series of explanatory polls and panel discussions, News Watch will bring together four South Dakota economists to discuss recent poll results that indicated pessimism among South Dakotans about their current financial status and whether life will be better for their children and future generations. The one-hour...

Long-standing economic hardships have prevented a sizable segment of the South Dakota population from achieving financial stability and prosperity, and those hurdles have resulted in a sense of pessimism for what awaits future generations, according to two experts who study the state economy. State and federal data routinely show that: South Dakota employers pay some of the lowest wages in the nation. A high number of families pay an excessive portion of their income on housing. The state has a regressive system of taxation. Many workers are not seeing their pay cover the rising cost of livin...