- fracking leads to higher dropout rate among high school students
- Dickinson housing "is stabilizing with more availability" ...
- ... while Williston's housing market is a shambles
- North Dakota is the "Greece" of the US
If not a new managing editor, certainly a new "critical" evaluation of the Bakken.
By the way, the "fracking leads to a higher dropout rate among high school students" story is ludicrous on the face of it. I doubt fracking companies were hiring many folks under the age of 18 years of age, and I assume the number of 18-year-olds still in high school is a drop in the bucket. Even my wife, who does not like fracking (don't ask), laughed at the story. I wonder how the new $15/hour minimum wage in NYC will affect the drop-out rate? Just asking? You can't have it both ways. (By the way, this fracking story is an old, old story; made the rounds some weeks ago; I had already posted it from another source. Maybe the new managing editor of TDP is reading the blog. LOL.)
With regard to Greece, North Dakota is laughing all the way to the bank. Even the new Spiritwood ethanol plant / lignite coal burning plant was financed with "green cards" through a program devised by Congress in 1992. Readers know my position on ethanol, but if free money is available, North Dakota has as much "right" to it as New York or New Jersey.
Some other data points:
Welfare spending, state and local spending only:
- New York: $26 billion
- California: $40 billion
- North Dakota: $1 billion
- Washington, DC, #1
- Mississippi, #2,
- New Mexico, #3
- New Mexico, #1
- Mississippi, #2
- Kentucky, #3
- Minnesota, #8
- New York, #7
- Washington, DC, #6
- Vermont, #5
- Massachusetts, #4
- Tennessee, #3
- Maine, #2
- and, the state ranked the biggest welfare state in this particular study: California, #1
- Alaska has highest rate of welfare recipients
- North Dakota is #1 children's economic well being, for the fourth year in a row
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