Whoa....USA map of unemployment rate as the years go by

[cyber3d]

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/la ... atrick.net

It shows the scary data month by month as it scrolls.

[MetroMPG]

Interesting!

The good news is it looks like the employment picture in the US has (maybe) just started to turn around:

Payrolls rose by 162,000 workers, the third gain in the past five months and the most since March 2007, figures from the Labor Department showed yesterday in Washington.

Increase in March Employment Shows U.S. Recovery Is Broadening

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Interesting!

The good news is it looks like the employment picture in the US has (maybe) just started to turn around:

Payrolls rose by 162,000 workers, the third gain in the past five months and the most since March 2007, figures from the Labor Department showed yesterday in Washington.

Increase in March Employment Shows U.S. Recovery Is Broadening

And yet, I just got told by Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Bureau of Unemployment Compensation that ~26,000 new claims (not extensions, actual initial claims) have been filed in the last few weeks. (up to 13 weeks... they won't give any better range, since I'm not the news.)

Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to get much better any time soon... I don't personally see much of a recession going on, but I work/think on a macro level. I could really care less about what big business supposes is a recession. It's a well known sentiment that the largest portion of wealth is controlled by the smallest portion of population, and as such, the term "recession" is subject to the whims of those buried in wealth.

Afterall, if they won't give up the cash flow, how are we supposed to earn it?

[serega12]

I'm up there in the black northwest with over 10% unemployment... Just joined those ranks a few months ago.