Updated 7/15/10
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 31 million people currently unemployed — that’s including those involuntarily working part-time 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 Decline: The Geography of a Recession," as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, 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.
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Original link: http://latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html.
Elaine the States are not the only ones with a high unemployment rate, it is happening in most of the developed countries because of the greed of Capitalizam sending all their jobs to poor countries where they pay next to nothing to their workers then ship it back home and then wonder why no one is buying……Hello bring back the jobs and give us a fair living…….Business keeps telling us that the jobs they send to poor countries are jobs no one will take here if this is true then why do they have to shut down their plants and put people out of work, proves someone wants the jobs here at home that is why we have such great unemployment rate….