North Dakota

[socialistjustin]

So apparently there is a town in North Dakota that has a negative unemployment rate. The town is called Williston and I was wondering if its true that anybody could find work there? I can't even get a call from McDonald's so I wouldn't even care if I had to sleep outside because the town has no houses left. I need a job and would appreciate any help on info about that town.

[Public Domain]

How is it possible to have a negative unemployment rate? Are people being hired before they even hand in a resume or something?

[socialistjustin]

Sounds like that could be right. I was watching a segment on Morning Joe and apparently a person working at a fast food place can make $15.00 an hour. I guess they struck oil or something.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

It's possible, North Dakota has a rather large resource-based sector of the economy.

[Nox]

I think the negative employment rate is kind of misleading, but technically true because the demand for employees is higher than the actual workforce available.

[Blackscare]

It's not like it's one magical town in ND, the whole state is experiencing somewhat of a "boom", at least relative to the shit going on elsewhere. It's like what happened in florida a billion years ago or north carolina (very popular with new yorkers at the moment, my family is probably going to move there in a month when I split to canada). It's cheaper there and not yet overcrowded, so it's getting a lot of economic migration which is in turn stimulating business.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

What Blackscare said is correct. They are also experiening a large nflux of capital due to oil and minerals discoveries as well as investment in pipelines.