Animated unemployment map

[dsheinem]

http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm

1992 - 7.5
1984-86 - >7
1983 - 9.6
1982 - 9.7
1980 - 7.1
1981 - 7.6
1976 - 7.7
1975 - 8.5
1961 - 6.7
1958 - 6.8

One problem (and this may relate to the difference in unemployment between the U.S. and Brazil, though I'm not certain), is that we've changed the way we calculate unemployment over the years. I believe current methods only count people actively seeking employment, not those who have given up.

Maybe I'm just reading the wrong propaganda, but I believe our unemployment numbers today are artificially lower than they would have been if measured in the 1920's, for example.

hmmm...news to me - source?

[zarathstra]

Or maybe there were 2 without jobs and one moved to Northern Alaska, which if you notice, got better. I wonder what's going on up there.

I think people pretty much only go to northern Alaska when their jobs send them there.

What, you've never wanted to visit Barrow?

Too many vampires.

[Limewater]

hmmm...news to me - source?

Here is a report when they changed the way they report unemployment in 1994. I don't think that's the first time they did it, but it's what I could find in a couple of minutes.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1995/10/art3full.pdf