Want a JOB? Good Luck - Ya gotta watch this. Takes 38 seconds.

[Warph]

According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 31 million people currently unemployed -- that's including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession," as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 -- approximately one year before the start of the recession -- to the most recent unemployment data available today.
Original link: www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html.

[Roma Jean Turner]

Wow, very dramatic to watch.  Like a swarm of locusts.

[jarhead]

Roma Jean, I thought it was the illigal migration !!!

[pamagain]

   I got laid off when the housing tanked.....that was two years ago.
   Joe fell into a real good job by accident soon after but HE has been laid off more than he has worked since the first of the year.

   I personally don't think the fat lady is even warmin up yet much less startin to sing.