Unemployment Continues – Updated Employment Chart at Slate.com

02. Jan, 2010 Comments

Many of you may have seen the interactive unemployment chart hosted by slate.com
already, but it has recently updated the chart with the latest figures through October 2009. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely worth a visit. It certainly does not correlate with the stock market sentiment.

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.

So how is this “recovery” happening again?

January 2007

January 2008