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handy
11-21-2009, 10:06 AM
Watch this animation of unemployment rates going up since January 2007. By the time you get to the end with all the black counties, counties with 10% or greater unemployment according to official (understated) figures, it is pretty hard to see those green shoots.
multimediafinal (https://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html)
phooph
11-23-2009, 06:11 PM
Groovy!
Not counted:
Full time workers cut to part time (under-employed)
Self employed (self un-employed or under-employed)
Discouraged job hunters no longer receiving unemployment insurance or actively looking for work
New graduates (never been employed so can't be classified as unemployed, or more accurately, dis-employed)
If the above numbers were factored in there would be a lot more black.
It looks like farmers and ranchers are doing the best as people still need to eat and machines do a lot of work on the Great Plains.
Watch this animation of unemployment rates going up since January 2007. By the time you get to the end with all the black counties, counties with 10% or greater unemployment according to official (understated) figures, it is pretty hard to see those green shoots.
multimediafinal (https://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html)
handy
11-23-2009, 08:05 PM
Also not counted: All the professional tax-feeders:
Military personnel maintaining an empire we don't need through a thousand bases in a hundred countries.
Bureaucrats in make work positions that would never exist in a free market.
(Think ACORN and TSA and a whole bunch of other TLAs)
Groovy!
Not counted:
Full time workers cut to part time (under-employed)
Self employed (self un-employed or under-employed)
Discouraged job hunters no longer receiving unemployment insurance or actively looking for work
New graduates (never been employed so can't be classified as unemployed, or more accurately, dis-employed)
If the above numbers were factored in there would be a lot more black.
It looks like farmers and ranchers are doing the best as people still need to eat and machines do a lot of work on the Great Plains.