Employment Archive:
Race and Recession
9 Nov 2009The Applied Research Center has a report on race and the recession that includes a number of charts examining the breakdown of unemployment, earnings, and foreclosures, by race. (via)
Personalized Unemployment
9 Nov 2009How bad would it be for you if you lost your job? This NYT graphic lets you filter the unemployment statistics on several variables.
Unemployment
8 Nov 2009A nice dashboard digging deep into unemployment stats. Updated monthly.
Wall Street Stock Options
8 Nov 2009
Unemployment
6 Nov 2009All new and depressing ways of looking at unemployment statistics, from Ritzholtz/The Big Picture.
Where to Work
In: Employment US Economy
5 Nov 2009U.S. salaries for several professions across the U.S.
Unemployment
In: Employment Maps US Economy
5 Nov 2009Flowingdata takes a look at unemployment 2004-09
AP Economic Stress Map (November update)
In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive Maps Updated regularly US Economy
2 Nov 2009Updated November 2nd. The map displays unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy, or a composite “stress index”, by county. In the upper right you can change the period the %-change is calculated for. To look at data over time, click on the “Oct.2007 to present” option and a historical slider will appear at the bottomDouble click on a region to zoom in; click & hold to move around.
USA Today Economic Outlook Index (October edition)
In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive Stock Market US Economy
2 Nov 2009Updated October 28th. The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”.
Economic Recovery Dashboard (Oct 09 ver)
24 Oct 2009October update of one of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. If you normally find this stuff confusing you should check it out — click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.
Population Problems
23 Oct 2009A graphic of several countries’ population distribution. The related article points out that while many OECD countries are facing problems because of their aging population, many developing countries are dealing with the opposite. Uganda, for example has 70 percent of the population under 30.
NPR Economy Map
18 Oct 2009Foreclosures, unemployment, and median household income. The scales are a little vague on two of the maps — but it’s ok for broad comparative purposes.
Best City to be Unemployed?
18 Oct 2009Major U.S. cities ranked by their ratio of job postings to unemployed people. Looks like they update this regularly. Spotted over at SimpleComplexity.
Stimulate Those Jobs
In: Bailout Employment Innovative Interactive Maps Source: USA Today US Economy
16 Oct 2009A funky little interactive map from USA Today. Click on a state on the map and the appropriate little dot on the sorted chart on the right will highlight to show you it’s ranking. When you change the indicator using the drop down box at the top (jobs created/total funds awarded/total funds received/unemployment rate) the dots in the chart all bounce around and resort themselves.
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