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Tuesday
Nov172009

Nationwide Unemployment County By County (Time Lapse '06-'09)

Click the image to see the unproductive scourge of recessionary unemployment come sharply into focus, county by county (time-lapse chart runs 30 seconds).  As far as we can tell, the figures are based on the BLS U3 measurement and thus don't show the true nature of job destruction that is reflected by U6 (17.5%).  Also, since these figures come from BLS they don't reflect the recently announced mea culpa on the birth-death adjustment for '09 of 824,000 phantom jobs.

Definitely impressive, but it lacks the action of this piece.

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Reader Comments (8)

According to the U.S. Department of Labor...hmmmm...that says a lot.

Labradoodle given to state of Nevada, saves 10 jobs.

2 dogwalking jobs
3 guide dog training jobs
1 dog food manufacturing job
1 hunting guide job
1 dog grooming job
1 sheep herding job
1 government job that helps manage job growth
Nov 17, 2009 at 7:06 PM | Unregistered Commentergobias
Why Won't Obama Give You a Job?

Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans?

Working Americans continue to suffer from the worst financial crash since the Great Depression, and Washington has so far offered up only band-aids to help them out -- extended unemployment benefits, small stimulus checks and deeply flawed mortgage relief programs that have done little to stem the tide of foreclosures.
http://www.alternet.org/politics/143952/why_won%27t_obama_give_you_a_job
Nov 17, 2009 at 8:07 PM | Unregistered CommenterKen
Labradoodle given to state of Nevada, saves 10 jobs.

2 dogwalking jobs
3 guide dog training jobs
1 dog food manufacturing job
1 hunting guide job
1 dog grooming job
1 sheep herding job
1 government job that helps manage job growth
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Funny shite...

Apropos of nothing...my parents want a labradoodle...they already have 2 golden retrievers, bo and lucy, and a wheaton terrier named Gus...
Nov 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Rep DeFazio wants Geithner and Summers
FIRED!!! To hear those words is like a breath of fresh air!!

Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obama's top two economic aides on Wednesday for pursuing a recovery plan skewed too heavily towards Wall Street's favor.

The Oregon Democrat told MSNBC's Ed Schultz that he was dismayed with the administration's lack of focus on job creation and insisted it was time to dismiss both White House economic adviser Larry Summers and Treasury Secretary "Timmy Geithner."

"We think it is time, maybe, that we turn our focus to Main Street -- we reclaim some of the unspent funds, we reclaim some of the funds that are being paid back, which will not be paid back in full, and we use it to put people back to work. Rebuilding America's infrastructure is a tried and true way to put people back to work," said DeFazio.

"Unfortunately, the President has an adviser from Wall Street, Larry Summers, and a Treasury Secretary from Wall Street, Timmy Geithner, who don't like that idea," he added. "They want to keep the TARP money either to continue to bail out Wall Street...or to pay down the deficit. That's absurd."

Asked specifically whether Geithner should stay in his job, DeFazio replied: "No.

"Especially if you look back at the AIG scandal," he added, "and Goldman and others who got their bets paid off in full...with taxpayer money through AIG. We channeled the money through them. Geithner would not answer my question when I said, 'Were those naked credit default swaps by Goldman or were they a counter-party?' He would not answer that question."

DeFazio said that among he and others in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, there was a growing consensus that Geithner needed to be removed. He added that some lawmakers were "considering questions regarding him and other economic advisers" -- though a petition calling for the Treasury Secretary's removal had not been drafted, he said.

"[Obama] is being failed by his economic team," DeFazio concluded. "We may have to sacrifice just two more jobs to get millions back for Americans."

Neither the White House or the Treasury Department immediately returned a request for comment.
Nov 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM | Unregistered CommenterKen
Good stuff, Ken. Nice find.
Nov 18, 2009 at 11:36 PM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
Great Find...love it...i love when people call for Summers and Geithner to be sacked...gives me a jolt of revenge
Nov 19, 2009 at 12:50 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Hmmmmm, will they land on the Group of Thirty feet?
Nov 19, 2009 at 1:20 AM | Unregistered Commentergobias
I can confirm the "slaughter" of the working class in Ohio. "They" have been exporting jobs for years in their zeal to eliminate the "paying" class.
Nov 20, 2009 at 7:56 AM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers

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