The Decline: Geography of a Recession

[Iwillnevergiveup]

Very sobering and enlightening.

Someone spent a lot of time breaking this down by every county in the country. Displayed this way, it sure brings perspective up close and personal.

This is scary. If you have a job, be thankful. Check the PLAY button and take note of the dates above the U.S. map as it advances month by month.

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

[L0oniX]

1. ...and you can add those 31 million to the ranks of the health care uninsured.

My estimate is around 75 million without health care. The only thing worse than being out of work is watching someone you love die because you don't have health insurance and or the co-pay money.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Shoud be retitled

The Geography of a Depression

[Warpy]

3. NM was one of the last places to be clobbered

since we didn't have a real estate bubble to burst, but we have gotten clobbered and job losses are accelerating. It looks like the only "safe" places are the breadbasket counties in the upper midwest, part of the conservative, rural "moron corridor" that sends conservative politicians to Washington to continue the mess.

The only way the Republicans can thrive in this mess in the rest of the country is to become even more obvious in their election theft.

[nightrain]

4. knr. thanks for posting. Nothing like a visual... needs an expanded scale though, sadly, as

>10% is dated. Including all the underemployed and no longer looking, the "unemployment rate" really is somewhere in the neighborhood of 18-20%. Horrifying. Obama needs to get rid of his current crop of advisors and start doing some progressive policy-making or we'll see it deepen further.

The "job-less recovery" crap is not adequate. We need a real jobs program and to stop protecting those damn hoarding corporations.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. AGREE!

And a "jobless recovery" means a permanent underclass of unemployed. What are they supposed to do - starve to death on the streets?

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. No, they're supposed to feed the for-profit prison industry.

And the military.