[quote=EconProf]On the other hand, if you want a job, move to North Dakota or Texas, where the unemployment rates are 3.7% and 8.1%, respectively.[/quote]
No one wants to move to North Dakota. As for Texas, that state is turning into an environmental wasteland:
ARGYLE — Kelly Gant once worked for an oil refinery in Port Arthur — an area nicknamed “Explosion Coast” and “Cancer Alley.”
When she left the job, the company was in the midst of a $200 million government-mandated soil cleanup project, she said. She couldn’t flee fast enough.
Gant and her husband settled in Argyle, thinking it would be an ideal place to raise a family. Fifteen years later, she feels like she’s back in harm’s way.
Since gas drilling began near Argyle High School in recent weeks, her daughter has experienced severe symptoms of asthma, a condition she had controlled for years, Gant said. Twice in the last two weeks, Gant said, she had to pull her daughter out of high school marching band practices because of dense fumes on the field.
