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Economic issues are facing the whole world at the moment. There is hardly a place that you can find that has not been touched in some way by the global economic meltdown. One of the places that has been hit particularly hard is North Dakota. This is a state that already would have economic issues regardless. Being a low population rural state puts North Dakota at a disadvantage. You then take into account the fact that the economy has taken a downturn for everyone and you can see the challenges being faced by North Dakota.

A large part of the problem for rural states like North Dakota is just that they are too far away from anything to have easy shipping of products. The stores in the state have to rely on the local population to sustain the profits that they need to bring in. When they decide to ship out products to outside customers, it is going to cost them quite a bit of money to do so. This is obviously something that the stores would like to avoid when they can, but a customer is a customer, and they will still profit some.

With lower profit margins than urban areas and the same unemployment problems, it is easy to see why North Dakota is currently facing some heavy economic challenges.