South Dakota unemployment

Amazon Public Relations Manager Scott Seroka explains a sorting system during a tour of the company's Sioux Falls fulfilment center on Feb. 16, 2023. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)

Gov. Noem touts record low unemployment; also presided over the highest

BY: - February 16, 2023

By two measures, Gov. Kristi Noem has presided over South Dakota’s lowest – and highest – unemployment rate. One of those metrics is the number of tax forms sent in January to those who’ve received certain kinds of government assistance in the previous year. That assistance includes things like agricultural payments, taxable grants or unemployment […]