Are you better off now than you were ten years ago?
On this map, the darker the blue the larger the decline in median household income. North Carolina looks like a rust-belt state.
Yesterday: Two Greensboros.

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"Hell is Real."
Posted by: Grant | Dec 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM
And Beck's a stupid tool.
Posted by: MojoNixon | Dec 17, 2010 at 12:03 PM
I wonder if the areas of increased income have anything in common.
Posted by: justcorbly | Dec 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM
anything in common
Wow: Crunching the numbers with the assumption that the projected five times-increase in Bakken wells equates to a five-times increase in revenue, it is possible that annual tax revenue from oil and gas alone could amount to $2.5 billion, generating more than the state’s biennial budget alone
Posted by: Grant | Dec 17, 2010 at 12:39 PM