North Dakota, a hotbed of the now-cooled fracking boom, lost 21,100 jobs from January 2015 through January 2016. That’s a 4.5 percent decline, by far the worst performance of any state over the past year, according to payroll employment numbers released this week.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-16/some-states-are-losing-jobs-most-aren-t
