Unemployment Rates
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 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.
If the following map doesn’t scare you a little…
“The Decline: The Geography of a Recession,” as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, 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. Original link: www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html
Hmm. See that big red county in Wisconsin? That’s Dane County where the capital Madison is. Where heaps of government people and are employed.
I also see the dark colors ALL around it, where unemployment seems to be everywhere!
Oh, and the DC area looks fine too, if you notice.