How The Boom-Bust Oil Cycle Is Playing Out In North Dakota Listen· 3:54
View on NPR website"SISK: All that said, this town of 23,000 is deep into debt - nearly $100 million into debt. Daniel Raimi has researched oil patch debt across the country. He says that North Dakota communities feel the pinch more intensely because of their location. DANIEL RAIMI: Because there are just a few cities in the area to accommodate all of these new workers, the cities of North Dakota have had to expand at a rate that we really hadn't seen anywhere else in the United States."
