The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

Submitted by Anna on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 06:37

Check this out:

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

It is a sequence (quarterly since 2007), graphically displaying unemployment percentages by county across all 50-states. The “time lapse” view of the problem is sobering. You can really see what’s happening — the trickle of the financial scandal is best illustrated by this 15-second slice of unemployment in America.

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