November 2008

North America Income, Education, Employment: 2006

by Catherine Mulbrandon on November 23, 2008

Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs unemployment. (The red circle, indicating very high income, belongs to Washington DC)

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[tags]United States, OECD, Mexico, Canada[/tags]

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US Economy: 1920-2008 (Good Magazine)

by Catherine Mulbrandon on November 16, 2008

Good Magazine in collaboration with Nigel Holmes created this historical survey of the US economy. The graph shows the GDP (grey) and the National Debt: real dollars (solid red line) and actual dollars (dotted red line)

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[tags]United States, GDP, National Debt[/tags]

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Falling into a recession: Unemployment Feb-Sep 2008

by Catherine Mulbrandon on November 9, 2008

Here is a series of maps showing the unemployment rate by state from February to September of this year. This was created using screenshots from a Bureau of Labor Statistics Interactive Map

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