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It really was quite depressing and I actually did not realize how "bad" employment options had gotten until I ran the simulation.....but in a graphic display such as this, you can actually feel the county's despair. I did not post it to "bum" posters out but to show all of us that, well, as others said...the whole country is turning purple(levity)..... Quite the eye opener. I wish our government would worry more about this problem until we rebound; rather than foreign politics.
An extremely interesting interactive map comparing all counties within the United States for their respective unemployment rates from January 2007 and continuing until the most recent published data available. .
The Multimedia version is easier to see than the YouTube version; but both are relatively easy to comprehend.>>>>>
multimediafinal (http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html - broken link)
Yes it was, but it really puts our current economic crisis into an easy to visualize format......unfortunately it appears as if the nation is being swallowed up by a huge and looming "shadow" of economic despair. .
It's upsetting that even somewhere like Texas, which is supposed to be weathering this thing better than some other states is being swallowed by this cancer of a recession....
...I think it goes to show that the Lone Star isn't so "lone" anymore and that it's not immune to the woes of the rest of the nation...
It appears that only the upper Mid-West is "holding it's own".
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