Echidne located a disturbing piece of cartography, an animated Unemployment map, that shows the spread of the problem at the county level since January of 2007.
It’s like one of those stock pieces of film footage with the map burning to show the spread of warfare or a plague.
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that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘purple states’.
.-= last blog ..I’ll say one thing for the NY Times =-.
Watching Okaloosa go from around 2% to over 10% was a bit sobering.
yeah, pretty bad when even the warmongering industry can’t keep employment up in a time of how many wars are we up to now?
also sobering: the national unemployment rate is now almost 2 percentage points higher than when that animation ends.
.-= last blog ..I’ll say one thing for the NY Times =-.
The scary part for Okaloosa County is how bad the numbers would be if we didn’t have the military and government contractors. The numbers reflect the collapse of the tourist industry and construction.
I’m one of those “unemployed”…I am temping…but finding permanent is almost impossible.
.-= last blog ..November 22, 1963 =-.
Most people down here are working multiple part-time jobs trying to get by. A lot of people are pooling resources and apartments are getting crowded. Day labor has just about dried up with the lack of construction jobs.