Before the oil bust begins to more broadly take its economic toll on the good people of North Dakota, they have one more chance to thump their chests in pride. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual look at state employment figures, and North Dakota was again the nation’s envy in 2014, a year that saw unemployment rates fall across the board.
North Dakota’s was the lowest for the sixth year in a row, and the labor force participation rate—a measure of the size of the labor force compared to the civilian population—was the highest.
