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My initial exploratory questions
really made me wonder. I started out
thinking of my job and why they were cutting my hours, unemployment, why am I
having trouble finding another full-time job, would I be stuck doing part-time
work and never finishing school? Then it
led me to my main topic: Why does North Dakota have the lowest unemployment
rate in the nation?
Seriously, why ND? Why not another state? Why not Colorado? I have friends there, so I have a little bit
of an understanding of the culture. I
also have to confess I was actually born there, but other than for this
assignment I would not admit that.
Because I don’t want to admit I was born there, I understand that might
lead me to judge ND. I recognize writing
should be more about questions and answers than judging and I will try to not
let it affect my inquiry or writing. I
have to admit because I was born there and know a little about ND, it easily
led me to come up with more questions on the topic. Why should ND have the lowest unemployment
rate? Is it because of their job
sectors? What are the job sectors? What is a job sector? Is there something in the water or ground
(oil)? Does the government know how to
spend or not spend money correctly?
I really could go on for 100-200
more words of just questions on the subject, but I know I have to make more
blog posts so I will try and refrain from using them all up in the first
post. I am hoping to find more answers
from the ND.gov website, other government websites, interviewing friends that
live there, Newspapers articles, magazine articles, the Bureau of labor and
statistics and maybe even using memories I have from being there.
This topic matters to me because I
am hoping I will learn where to find answers about unemployment and where the
jobs are. I can use the research from ND
on CO or any other state I might want to move to in the future. I was also offered a job from a friend in ND,
but he used words like “permanent” and “guaranteed 40 hours”, which really made
me wonder: How can he use such words and why DOES ND have such a low
unemployment rate?
