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North Dakota Runs Down
Stern, Albert | July 19, 1965 issue

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Some states export cotton; others manufactured goods, oil, timber or coal. North Dakota exports people, young, talented, energetic people, thousands every year. With a population of about 600,000, it lost 120,000 people by migration in the years 1940 to 1950, 103,000 in the following decade. People leave North Dakota because they can live better somewhere else. It is a state in which wages are low and jobs scarce; a few are wealthy and the many poor. While the picture today is bleak, a sensible politics could change it. It could raise wages in the state; create job opportunities that would keep many of the young, the energetic and the able at home.

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MIGRATION, Internal; YOUTH; WORKING class; QUALITY of life; WAGES; JOB vacancies; NORTH Dakota; UNITED States
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