"Go West, that is, if you live East of the Dakotas. Quite a few years ago, I read that North Dakota had more millionaires per capita than any other state, the consequence of agriculture and oil. And that was before the Bakken Shale development, currently the largest construction project in the United States. Daniel Gross (via InstaPundit) cites chapter and verse on North Dakota’s boom: the unemployment rate is 3.2%; one quarter of all the oil drilling rigs in the United States are operating in North Dakota; in Williston, McDonald’s restaurants pay entry level workers $12.50 to $15 per hour; North Dakota’s economy has grown 7.1% in the past year; and the state can’t find enough workers to man the jobs it is creating."
[Power Line]
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