Unemployment in the US: how it's evolved

There's a fascinating map of the evolution of unemployment in the US by county since January 2007. While the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator, watching the map change colors makes it easy to understand why so many Americans are skeptical about how much of a recovery there's been.

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html