Unemployment Rates by County: January 2007 to Present
An incredible month-to-month time lapse animation of U.S. unemployment by county since 2007. As you can imagine, things start to look really dire around the end of 2008.
“According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 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. The above interactive map 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.”
