Recently added articles from South Dakota Business Review:
Understanding traffic death rates: can we keep our children safe?
Mar 01, 2009; ... For close to two decades, children and teens in Montana and South Dakota have consistently shown higher rates of death than most of the other states in the country, meaning that more of them die before they reach adulthood. While the total death rates are the results of numerous causes, ...
Final issue.
Mar 01, 2009; ... This will be my last issue as managing editor of the South Dakota Business Review (SDBR). I wish to thank ail who have made contributions to the SDBR including our editorial review committee, Carole Cochran, our webmaster and editing assistant, and especially ...
Follow up to Pine Ridge Micro Lending article published in South Dakota Business Review January 2009.
Mar 01, 2009 ... Although micro-lending on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation following the Grameen Bank's group lending process has been suspended, other micro-lending processes continue. Dowell Caselli-Smith, Executive Director of Lakota Funds, states that "while Lakota Funds suspended the Grameen Bank's ...
South Dakota and United States.(Business Highlights)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Labor Market Only one of South Dakota's major industries--information--posted an annual decline in employment from 2007 to 2008 with the loss of 200 workers. Overall, South Dakota nonfarm employment added 5,000 workers for this period. Education and health services accounted ...
2008 Population estimates for South Dakota counties.(South Dakota State Data Center News)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Fastest Growing: Lincoln County was among the fastest growing U.S. counties with a population of 10,000 or more between 2007 and 2008. According to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Lincoln County ranked twelfth in the nation as one of the fastest growing counties. Its population ...
South Dakota local conditions indicators.(Local Indicators and Consumer Price Index)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> SOUTH DAKOTA LOCAL CONDITIONS INDICATORS (% Change Like Period Previous Year) HousingTaxable City Starts/ (1) Employment/ (2) Sales/ (3) Aberdeen -15.5 -0.4 9.6% Belle ...
Consumer price index.(Local Indicators and Consumer Price Index)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> CONSUMER PRICE INDEX * United States January-December 2008 (1982-1984 = 100), unless otherwise noted Jan Feb Mar Apr All Items 211.1 211.7 213.5 214.8 Food & beverages 208.8 ...
Total personal income.(South Dakota Income and Employment)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME United States, Plains Region and States Fourth Quarter 2007--Fourth Quarter 2008 (Millions of Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted at Annual Rates) 2007 2008 20084th Qtr/ (r) 1st Qtr/ (r)...
Nonfarm wage and salary employment for South Dakota.(South Dakota Income and Employment)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> NONFARM WAGE AND SALARY EMPLOYMENT for South Dakota December 2007 and December 2008 (In Thousands) Dec Dec % 2007 2008 chg Total Nonfarm Employment 407.0 409.5 0.6 Total ...
Annual crop acreage and production South Dakota 2007-2008.(South Dakota Agricultural Indicators)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> ANNUAL CROP ACREAGE AND PRODUCTION SOUTH DAKOTA 2007-2008 Harvested(1000 Acres) Crop Unit 2007 2008 % Chg Wheat, All Bu. ...
Prices received by farmers for commodities sold.(South Dakota Agricultural Indicators)
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS FOR COMMODITIES SOLD December 2007 and December 2008 Prices ($)% ChgDec Dec Dec 07 Commodity and Unit2007 * 2008 **Dec 08 Wheat Bu....
The growth years, 1967-1989.
Mar 01, 2009; ... My association with R.F. Patterson, former dean of the USD School of Business, was life long. I was born in Tarkio, Missouri about four blocks from where the Pattersons lived, and was in church and the first grade with their daughter Mary. After leaving Tarkio, Dean Patterson remained a ...
Cultural implications on micro-lending efforts for the pine ridge Indian reservation.
Dec 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The reservation is the second largest in the nation and covers 11,000 square miles. It is located in southwestern South Dakota, sandwiched between the Black Hills to the west, the Badlands to the ...
Unemployment rate.(South Dakota)
Dec 01, 2008 ... South Dakota's unemployment rate averaged 2.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007, rising to 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2008. Since March 2008 when it hit a low of 2.5 percent, the unemployment rate has been inching upwards ....
Nonfarm wage and salaried workers.(South Dakota)
Dec 01, 2008 ... From the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008, South Dakota's work force increased. Total nonfarm wage and salaried workers increased 1.4 percent, or by nearly 6,000 workers for ...
Total personal income.(South Dakota)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Following a slight dip in income in the first quarter of 2006, total personal income in South Dakota has grown each quarter into the second quarter of 2008. The slight downturn of -0.2 percent in the ...
Taxable sales.(South Dakota)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Mainstreet activity is reflected in taxable sales dollars reported by the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation. The following table shows quarterly gains in total taxable sales for South Dakota for the first three quarters of 2007 and 2008: <Pre> ...
Total personal income.(United States)
Dec 01, 2008 ... Total personal income for the U.S. slowed sharply in the third quarter of 2008. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, "it remained unchanged from the second quarter which had been boosted by economic stimulus payments and was the weakest for the nation since the first ...
Nonfarm payroll employment.(United States)
Dec 01, 2008 ... According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, total nonfarm payroll employment decreased in the third quarter 2008 compared to this period a year ago by 427,000 workers. Job losses were widespread across the major industry sectors from the third quarter ...
Unemployment rate.(United States)
Dec 01, 2008 ... The unemployment rate averaged 6.0 percent in the third quarter 2008, up from 4.7 percent from this period a year ago. With the ...