The Geography of Job Loss

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This is incredible:

http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/


This animated map provides a striking visual of employment trends over the last business cycle using net change in jobs from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on a rolling 12-month basis. We used this approach to provide the smoothest possible visual depiction of ongoing employment dynamics at the MSA level. By animating the data, the map highlights a number of concurrent trends leading up to the nation’s present economic crisis. The graphic highlights the 100 largest metropolitan areas so that regional trends can be more easily identified.

The timeline begins in 2004 as the country starts its recovery from the 2001 recession, following the bursting of the dot-com bubble. At first, broad economic growth was apparent across most of the country. Two notable exceptions are the Bay Area — the hub of the tech boom that drove job growth during the prior decade — and several metropolitan areas within the Midwest. The map reveals that much of the industrial Midwest never fully recovered from the previous recession, as manufacturers continue to shed jobs while other parts of the country were adding them in large number.

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[zippy890]

1. incredible to look at last quarter of 2008

yikes

[Dappleganger]

5. Seeing the graphics all at once

really drives home the point of how long this has been going on.

I was shocked by the FL area (we're in NE FL). You could tell when Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, too.

[Fovea]

2. That is scary.

Really.

[closeupready]

3. Fascinating.

K&R

[TahitiNut]

4. It looks like a graphic from "Wargames"

Funny how nobody gave a shit when it was primarily SE Michigan. :puke: Or New Orleans. :puke: After all, it's just "those people." :puke:

The folly of ignoring canaries dying in the coal mine. Stupid. Batshit stupid!

[DemReadingDU]

6. Gives new meaning to 'red states', n/t

[RadicalTexan]

7. Wow, that was scary

I'm in, like, the last tiny green dot.

[progressoid]

8. Kinda like this one...

http://www.slate.com/id/2216238