Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Job Losses Show Breadth of Recession

Go for the column, stay for the map. From the New York Times:

What does the worst recession in a generation look like?


It is both deep and broad. Every state in the country, with the exception of a band stretching from the Dakotas down to Texas, is now shedding jobs at a rapid pace. And even that band has recently begun to suffer, because of the sharp fall in both oil and crop prices.

Unlike the last two recessions — earlier this decade and in the early 1990s — this one is causing much more job loss among the less educated than among college graduates. Those earlier recessions introduced the country to the concept of mass white-collar layoffs. The brunt of the layoffs in this recession is falling on construction workers, hotel workers, retail workers and others without a four-year degree....MORE
HT: The Columbia Journalism Review's The Audit blog.