The geography of jobs

[Danascot]

Very sobering:

http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/

[Libertas1776]

1. Well

I have officially crapped my pants. :scared:

[Greyhound]

2. A handy tool.

Bear in mind that this represents official BLS numbers. It's even worse.
:kick: & R

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. I love those kind of charts

[FirstLight]

4. that REALLY doesn't look very encouraging

...and here I was hoping to see a map that showed WHERE the jobs ARE...
rather that the fact that they just AREN'T

We're not in recovery, people...will SOMEONE send THIS to the assholes who keep saying we are "fine now"...?

crap
:scared:
time for me to plan my crops in the backyard for spring and stock up for a long and lean winter on foodstamps...

[The Straight Story]

5. Wonder how it would look with a map overlay showing crime rates?

And we have people in congress who do not want to extend unemployment....fire em.

[amborin]

6. shows San Fran after the last dot com bubble burst ......

unless i'm reading it incorrectly, the graphic uses data up through 2004

that would explain why san fran lost so many jobs...it was one of the seats of the dot com bubble and bore the brunt of its collapse

[dysfunctional press]

7. tip for viewers- don't miss the sliding calander marking at the top..

when you slide it to the right, to JUL2009- it gets EXTREMELY scary.

almost like a projected nuclear attack map from the cold war days.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. We should start seeing specks of green here and there

but not fast enough. Last week my county had actual positive growth...

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. And here is the story

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/16/san-diego-unemployment-rate-drops/?business

[intheflow]

9. You can really see the toll Katrina took on the Coast

if you look in July 2005 compared to September 2005. Though the whole thing is horrific, especially the closer you get to present day.

[RandomThoughts]

10. That seems to only include metropolitan areas.

Rural areas seem to have the same trends not shown in that chart. Although the rural states have lower unemployment, and population, having no indicators in so many states seems to make the graphic not be as accurate.

However that chart only showing unemployment problems in urban areas fits many ideas.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate


The graph says not all areas were treated equally, implying some areas have better some worse results, then the chart leaves out data for rural areas, it does not look like an accurate representation.

[Liberation Angel]

12. thanks - very cool graphic k&r nt

nt

[Festivito]

13. Bloody mess. Detroit is like the canary in the mine.

As our population continues to increase, to see this adjusted as jobs gained/lost per population statistic could only look worse I suspect.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. For the 12 months ending in January 2004?

:shrug: