The Decline: The Geography of a Recession
(Multimedia) (Video) Unemployment rates by county, over time. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Shelley Hamilton (f), OTown TeaParty (f), Fred Sampson (f), David Fox (f), Fabrice Florin (f)Review
The short video geographic charts show the location and extent of US unemployment over the last few years. The short graphic map show brings home the extent of the unemployment.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed -that’s including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. The … interactive map serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 - approximately one year before the start of the recession — to the most recent unemployment data available today.
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