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Business Development in a Time of Low Unemployment

Business Development in a Time of Low Unemployment

Nancy Wenande Photo: WNAX


Businesses across the state are competing for workers as back orders mount up.

Yankton Area Progressive Growth C.E.O. Nancy Wenande says the impending federal infrastructure bill could also have a big impact…

Wenande says despite the tight labor market, she has been working with potential new businesses…

Wenande says another challenge to business expansion is a very tight natural gas supply….

The South Dakota Department of Labor reported an unemployment rate of two-point nine percent in March, the lowest in the country.

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