Have you heard about the oil boomtown that has a -25% unemployment rate? Yes you heard me, negative! And these are not minimum wage jobs, instead, they are jobs, for example, starting truck drivers at $80,000 a year, Taco Johns $15.00 an hour, etc.
Jay Weber explains how Williston is a model for America and can change the economy over night. It's 25 minutes:
http://tinyurl.com/6hjc5kg
http://www.newstalk1130.com/player/?program_name=podcast&program_id=thejaywebershow.xml&omu=http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/MILWAUKEE-WI/WISN-AM/Hour%203%20-%20Part%201b.mp3&art=thejaywebershow&tra=podcast
Hi Alan, thanks for posting this. I had posted an article about the "oil boom" in North Dakota, here:
ReplyDeletehttp://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/10/us-moves-toward-oil-independence.html
I think there's going to be a "great migration" toward that part of the country fairly soon.