Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Map of Job Loses

Slate.com has a slick interactive map of the USA showing job loses by county over time.
You can scroll from January 2007 to February 2009 and see the gains and loses your own county and state have experienced.
Using the Labor Department's local area unemployment statistics, Slate presents the recession as told by unemployment numbers for each county in America. Because the data are not seasonally adjusted for natural employment cycles throughout the year, the numbers you see show the change in the number of people employed compared with the same month in the previous year. Blue dots represent a net increase in jobs, while red dots indicate a decrease. The larger the dot, the greater the number of jobs gained or lost. Click the arrows or calendar at the bottom to see each month of data. Click the green play button to see an animation of the data.

You can see the map here.

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