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Economy

jtuck004

(15,882 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2012, 08:43 AM Mar 2012

Interactive job map

near the bottom of the article.

You get to set the number of jobs created, minus those who will be increasing the labor force (there are a couple million of who say they want work but there are no jobs to apply for).

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/03/where-is-unemployment-rate-headed.html

I don't care much for the guys politics (too selfish for me) and the conclusions that follow, but the data, and explanations, especially when unemployment reports are out, are quite good.

Now I need to find one that shows the effect of replacing 11 million good-paying factory jobs with coffee baristas.

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