By Rocky Vega
11/18/09 Stockholm, Sweden – Unemployment is being covered extensively these days, but it’s difficult to describe in words the severity of the problem. Today a moving time-lapse image of joblessness growing across the US map like a cancer really hammers the point home. Unemployment seems more like it’s on a slippery slope with each passing day. Viewing this graphic presentation seems akin to a watching pandemic sweeping across the nation.
The image shows unemployment rates at the county level and how quickly they have been increasing, nearly doubling from 4.5 percent in 2007 to 8.5 percent in 2009, and in seeing the problem spread the extent of the economic disintegration becomes palpable.
The moving graphic entitled, The Decline: The Geography of a Recession, came to our attention via The Daily Bail, and is available here.
Rocky Vega is a regular contributor to The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is also enrolled at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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