Pushback: North Dakota

October 21, 2011Erik Kain

In response to my post on the hiring spree going on in North Dakota, commenter Barry took issue with the numbers: According to your chart, there are ~16,000 job openings in N. Dakota. The number of unemployed Americans, *just* counting those who lost their jobs in this crash, is on the order of (IIRC), 16,000,000. […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.