Visualizing Job Loss in North America

Someone recently brought to our attention Slate Magazine's striking visualization of job loss in the United States. Using the Labor Department's county-level unemployment statistics, Chris Wilson provides an interactive map of spreading job loss between 2007-2009. The author points out that the jobs crisis in North American manufacturing began long before the 2008 financial meltdown: important losses began happening in key areas at least as early as 2007, and spread throughout the United States over the next two years. JobsGraveyard's data also shows that Canada's manufacturing job loss began as early as 2002, and this is also part of a much longer-term trend away from manufacturing and towards services.

Click here to go to the full story and map: http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/