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Joel Discusses the Success of the Great Plains

July 9, 2010/in
By:

Tom Ashbrenner

In:

NPR Boston OnPoint Radio

Joel was on NPR Boston’s OnPoint radio show today talking about growth in the Great Plains states.

From NPR:

The Great Plains Boom

Great Plains cities are booming while the rest of the country’s economy is in trouble. We look at what’s going on in a part of the country some were willing to write off for dead.

It seems like only yesterday that the Great Plains, the magnificent center of the country, was being written off as an economic basket case. Towns boarding up. People leaving.

The case was made to give the region back to Mother Nature. To make it a “buffalo commons” again.

Oh, how things change. Today, while so much of the country is struggling economically, the cities of the Great Plains are booming. Don’t laugh at Fargo. It’s got jobs. Agriculture and the energy biz, low costs – and low wages.

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