Friday, November 06, 2009

North Dakota Still Looks Good

A year ago, I drew up a little map showing the unemployment rate in each state.

Here's another one, with the same color scheme:



Green states have unemployment below 4% (none in Sept. '09).
Olive states have unemployment between 4% and 5%.
Yellow states have unemployment between 5% and 6% (none in Sept. '09).
Maroon states have unemployment between 6% and 7%.
Red states have unemployment between 7% and 8%.
Magenta states have unemployment above 8%.

Things don't look so good this year, huh?

What should the government do? Perhaps they should take money away from citizens when the citizens need it most and also make it difficult for business owners to hire new employees? Does that sound good? What, no? Because that's what we're doing. . .

3 comments:

Iris said...

On my monitor, the green, olive and yellow are all the same color - olive.

Pedicularis said...

Umm, there were no green or yellow states.

peter said...

North Dakota unemployment is improving, but conditions vary throughout the state according to this heat map:
http://www.localetrends.com/st/nd_north_dakota_unemployment.php?MAP_TYPE=curr_ue