Unemployment Rates By State
By Barry Ritholtz - August 4th, 2009, 11:30AM
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Good visual representation of data — but, typical government product. Wouldn’t it be even easier to visualize if the color scale were reversed? (i.e., darkest is the lowest %)
August 4th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Very good chart!
Btw, looks like GE is the 2nd company in 2 days to admit to lying and paying their patronage fee to the SEC…50 million in fact. I guess this may be a sign the SEC is doing its job to a VERY SMALL degree. http://contraryriches.blogspot.com/2009/08/americas-crappiest-company.html
August 4th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
A better and more accurate visualization would be with U-6 rates per state. You’d need to add 5% to each range though.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/295086/Stiglitz-America-at-%22Serious-Risk-of-Extended-Malaise%22?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,DIA,TBT,XLP,%5EIXIC&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode=
Stiglitz: America at “Serious Risk of Extended Malaise”
“Stiglitz also cited a number of potential negative speed bumps the recovery may hit, including:
Weakness in commercial real estate.
Huge deficits at the state level, leading to more job losses.
Many Americans at risk of having unemployment benefits expire.
Weakness in our major trading partners, and overall lack of final demand.
In fact, Stiglitz says the next few years may be characterized by weak growth and false starts on the road to recovery, not unlike Japan in the past 20 years or America during the Great Depression. “
August 4th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
What would be really interesting to see is a correlation between this map and the per capita rate of squirrel consumption.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
A while back someone pointed out the Huskers also had a very low foreclosure rate. If I ever move the heartland, I’m picking NE.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
@ Ken M.
I think charcoal gray is the right color for >10% U3. Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota & North Dakota should be green though. More green than red for sure.
August 4th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Uh…is the person who created this God-awful visualization color blind?
August 4th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
@steve glista
LOL! I’ve been eyeing those little suckers lately myself. Some are nice and fat. Of course, the sunflower seeds we feed them by the bushel might just have something to do with that. :)
August 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Tom
LOL It is a pretty atrocious color scheme, isn’t it?
August 4th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Whew!! Glad to see that Lake Michigan has an unemployment rate of < 1.9%
August 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Great map, lets just remember to X 2 the numbers. 150 million workers and 26 million under and unemployed it 18%, the equivalent of every man woman and child in Texas
August 4th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
@Pat G
That’s it! Pat G gets the reward for the quote of the day…:-)…LMFAO
“Whew!! Glad to see that Lake Michigan has an unemployment rate of < 1.9%”
August 5th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I like to look at some more detailed unemployment level maps that give a better, spatial view of the current and past situation like this one for current unemployment for Florida
http://www.localetrends.com/st/fl_florida_unemployment.php?MAP_TYPE=curr_ue
You can get a better idea of which areas of a state are suffering more than others.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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