North Dakota Lost 27,000 Taxpayers in 2016 and That’s a Really Big Deal
According to a report from the Associated Press, in 2016 the State of North Dakota lost some 27,000 taxpayers as...
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The Jobs Argument for Wind Power Is Baloney
In a recent editorial the Grand Forks Herald tries to gloss over the very real problems with wind power. Namely...
North Dakota's Post Oil Boom Jobless Claims Seem To Have Peaked
As North Dakota's oil boom has faded the state has seen a big spike in the number of unemployment filings,...
They're Still Hiring In North Dakota's Oil Patch
The drilling jobs have dried up, and oil boom-inflated salaries have dried up. Developers who built too many hotels and...
North Dakota Employment Grows Slightly Despite Oil Slowdown
With North Dakota's oil boom fading everyone is watching the state's economy closely. The slowdown in oil and gas activity...
North Dakota Has Highest "Good Jobs Rate" For Third Year In A Row
Per Gallup, the good jobs rate "tracks the percentage of the U.S. adult population aged 18 and older who are...
North Dakota Still Has More Job Openings Than Unemployed People
According to the November job openings report from North Dakota Job Service (see below), the number of job openings listed...
How North Dakota's Unemployment Benefits Doubled Even As The Unemployment Rate Stayed The Same
Earlier today I wrote about a Bureau of Economic Analysis report showing that the amount of unemployment benefits paid out...
“A good education and skills for the workforce are not synonymous"
Over at Watchdog today I have an article up about a study linking fracking to high school dropout rates (my...
Oil Price Impact: North Dakota Has About 1,500 More Unemployed People Than A Year Ago
The latest numbers on North Dakota's job market are out, and the state has seen a slight decline in the...
