Platts is tweeting: "NYT story doesn't state it, but graph shows US area with highest income mobility is the Bakken."
Platts is referring to this story in The New York Times. On a per capita basis, North Dakota would surprise a lot of non-car-owning NYT reporters. The Times narrative completely avoided comment on the dark blue areas (incredible good areas) in North Dakota -- I guess the reporters felt the region was an outlier (a "one-off") or the Bakken story did not fit their narrative.
Wow! Look at that top graphic at the top of the linked article: Williams County and Dunn County. Drag your "mouse icon" over the dark blue areas in North Dakota: Williston and Dickinson are singled out. The only other area in the entire US with a similar number is the Vernal area east of Salt Lake City (a couple of minor exceptions in South Dakota and North Dakota, also with sky-high income mobility).
If you spend some time on the graphic, you will notice that there is a corridor of high income mobility running down the midsection of the United States.
Scroll down and play with the interactive US map at the linked article above: you can find specifically how your area is doing.
I would assume much of the success "achieved" by young folks in New York City and Boston has to do with silver spoons and nepotism.
CarpeDiem has posted a gazillion stories about the successes of the Bakken. It's hard to believe that The New York Times missed it. Well, maybe it's not surprising.
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