Friday, October 16, 2009

The Job Market, in Charts

You may have heard by now that the unemployment rate reached 9.8 percent in September. There are lots of other ways to gauge the health of the job market, however. Here are a few graphs that show how tough it is out there. First we have a chart showing a breakdown of monthly job losses (or, in some cases, gains) by industry, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: (more)

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