Marcus Benson moved 1,500 miles from his home in Philadelphia to North Dakota for the shale boom. He made the lengthy drive — with no job and nowhere to live — in April 2012 after hearing on the news that the state had the lowest unemployment rate in the country. “I felt like it was a good opportunity. I wasn’t doing much,” Benson, who had been working odd jobs after dropping out of college, told CNNMoney. He immediately landed good-paying work loading rail cars with sand used for fracking. “I went from doing odd jobs for $8 an hour to $25 an hour. I thought that was crazy,” Benson said. It wasn’t long before he was earning $30 an hour. Plunging oil prices recently cost Marcus Benson, pictured above, his good-paying oil job in North Dakota. Jeff Sharpe, pictured with his colleagues, also recently lost his job as a […]