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- dvsbastard, on 07/10/2009, -0/+122Apparently the only job which is recession proof is "Infrographic designer"...
- dtfinch, on 07/10/2009, -0/+39unemployment graphs by state, county:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment - yocouchdigga, on 07/10/2009, -0/+22they want to keep all the fast food to themselves!
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clever devils... - ladyemma, on 07/10/2009, -0/+22great, I'm sitting on a hotspot... ETA on my pink slip?
- nertil1, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21I live in Michigan and it seems to me like that number should be higher, it's terrible over here.
- RiotHeart, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21Here in tampa, just about every fast food joint refuses to even give out apps anymore. What does that tell you?
- jmcneilly, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21You have no idea what it is like here. Someone who met me while I was out of state told me that those of us in Detroit have to "move, adapt or die". I started my own computer company not too long before the economy took a nose dive and I was tamped out of business. That was the 'adaptation'.
I can't do what I did before; I designed and improved efficiency of factories. All the factories are closing. I can't move, as that would require money I don't have and there is no one looking to invest money in their factories.
That leaves the third alternative.
Detroit is just a dead body that hasn't stopped moving yet. - rainierbeer, on 07/10/2009, -2/+16college educated trust fund kids keep moving here.
- yocouchdigga, on 07/10/2009, -0/+14we've given up on handing out pink slips. now were' just waiting to see how long you people will work without getting paid. whoever wins keeps their job.
best of luck to you! - kgbpimp, on 07/10/2009, -0/+13Looks like people in Washington DC still have jobs
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -3/+16thats why theyre called speaches. theyre not to be confused with truth.
- covertbadger, on 07/10/2009, -0/+12It's an old trick for making graphs look more dramatic. Linear changes in the underlying data are represented by quadratic changes in the graphic representation, so larger numbers look much, much bigger than they are.
For instance, compare Chicago and Detroit. The ratio between the percentages is 14.9/10.5=1.42, yet the circle is visibly twice as large. This is because the data drives the diameters, but the graph dishonestly displays the areas. Lo and behold, if we convert the diameters to areas, we get pi*14.9^2 / pi*10.5^2 = 2.01. A ratio of 1.42 in the data magically becomes 2.01 in the representation.
There are only two explanations for people making graphs like that - either they fail at maths, or they are trying to outright mislead their audience. - marblewonder, on 07/10/2009, -0/+12I get why Detroit went up so much but why Portland? Anyone wanna explain to me?
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -2/+14Luckily I live in Houston, but I feel sorry for those in Detroit, damn, 14.9%?
- coinslot, on 07/10/2009, -0/+12you just accidentally that comment
- yocouchdigga, on 07/10/2009, -0/+11so if they all just give up on their job hunt, we're in the clear! :D
- SchmuckofNI, on 07/10/2009, -1/+11WRONG! It has to do with massive layoffs at the local Intel plant located in Hillsboro. http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/01/22/intel-to ... Kind of a cascade effect.
- phphreak, on 07/10/2009, -6/+16I thought Obama's stimulus was going to result in a rainshower of jobs all over America?
- MacBandit, on 07/10/2009, -1/+10It's because largely Oregon's businesses were based on expendable funds. Take the RV industry for example. Oregon is or was the largest producer or RVs in the United States. What happened after all the paid orders were complete? No more orders so multiple manufacturing plants closed. Oregon is also the grass seed capital of the world. Hey guess what sod and grass seed aren't quite high on the list of necessary items. Also Oregon had an abnormally large construction industry before the economy tanked. This was due to a large influx of wealthy people building new homes here. After the crash the influx slowed dramatically and the construction industry tanked.
Oh and the graphic is wrong last I checked Oregon on average was in excess of 15% unemployment. - Kate1240, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8Thanks! I never knew this existed! Dugg
- Enlefo, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8Portland is a huge destination city, I grew up here and 90%+ of people I meet here are not from Portland. While traveling both domestically and abroad I've met a lot of people who want to come to Portland. I can't blame them... Portland kicks ass and has something for everyone, very diverse music/art/culture scenes. Sadly that influx of people that has been very large in the past 10-15 years has gone from boon to bane.
- edwartica, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8That's pretty much it. Everyone moves here without jobs, and thus the jobs that are available get scarcer and scarcer.
- darkism, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8Because it's so ***** gorgeous, people move there first and worry about unimportant things like jobs later.
(yea, I just got back. Beautiful, functional city you guys have there.) - sulthernao, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7These are official numbers. Unofficial (underemployment+those who have given up looking) numbers are probably over 20%.
- manicjunkee, on 07/10/2009, -2/+9Is the circle diameter linearly proportional to the unemployment percentage? If it is then, this = fail.
- freezerburn666, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7i'm in canada but the 14.9 circle is covering my city.... i'm unemployed and it ***** sucks dick.
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6The second highest metro area on that map, The Inland Empire, is very conservative, same with San Diego. The local governments there are dominated by Republicans. Further, Los Angeles is easily more conservative than San Francisco, yet SF has the lower unemployment rate of the two. Sacramento is more conservative still, and it beats them both.
Your correlation is probably weaker than you think, and there's probably no causality behind it. There are other factors causing higher unemployment in the city, likely the fact that jobs located in urban areas are easier to outsource than farm work(that's merely an example, not meant to fully explain the difference). - UtopianComplex, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6I haven't heard any great explanation other than what ranier said, people keep moving here and we already have one of the highest college educated rates. I am not having fun being unemployed and thinking about leaving.
- ancientshoes, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6whooo! go dallas!
- dafragsta, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5From what I can tell, Austin is hanging in there. It's not great, but then again, 3 years ago, there was a real talent drought. Recruiters would call me all the time even after I told them I had a job I was happy with. I'd say an experienced technical worker is looking at 1-3 months downtime unless you get really lucky, but that doesn't mean there aren't jobs. The problem is that the recruiters have monopolized the listings on Monster, Dice, and HotJobs, which are utterly useless because recruiters are often dumbasses who don't know how to match technical skills, they only know buzzwords. I've NEVER gotten a gig from a recruiting firm. The best place to look these days is Craig's List.
- ThanatosST, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4I tried that. They still can lay you off via e-mail.
- krekc, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4I work for a supplier to Ford and GM in the Metro Detroit area and while we havent lost our jobs yet I did take a 20% pay cut last month. Not much I can do though but hope it turns around fast.
- tonberryqueen, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Boston doesn't seem to be that much worse off than Dallas or Phoenix. And we're so bleeding heart liberal, we let men marry each other up here.
I was reading this more as having high losses in areas where large amounts of employment center around industries that have been tanking (although I believe Detroit and Portland weren't doing great on unemployment numbers before the recession, either). NYC, Boston, and a lot of other cities have been hit hard by a loss in financial sector jobs. I'm guessing that Tampa and Miami are both being hurt by a drop in tourism. DC probably does well because of the number of people employed by the federal government. - Toshibi, on 07/10/2009, -0/+417.2% here. This place blows like a bucktoothed crackwhore.
- N01SE, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5Every single post no matter what it is about, people find a way to make some idiotic conservative/liberal statement. Please stop.
- DaFox, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5^ holy *****.
- faskippy, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4It's comes down to what the market will bear. In a depression, it's trickier for everyone to find their market. Their niche. It sounds like a great idea, but it's not as realistic as you may think. But I'm thinking you may know that deep down, hence your username?
- dwaxe, on 07/10/2009, -6/+10Who keeps making these pictures and calling them "infographics"?
It's a poweruser ploy... - nerfman, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4I'm sure you meant to say highest in Canada... the average unemployment rate is still only at about 8.5% in Canada with the lowest levels being in Alberta at around 4%
- edwartica, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Oh really? So how come our unemployment rate has been steadily rising YEARS before Intel's layoffs?
- docjunkie, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3Inland Empire: +5.6 WTF is that about...
- zaphron777, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4Hmm....What about Alaska....and Hawaii?
- pathouston22, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4You're not suppose to tell people that!
- cbg78, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3I had to move out of Detroit.. and on Every interview I have in Denver, they feel bad for me when I say I'm from Detroit. I did found work in Denver.
I can buy a house in a hip area in Michigan for 50k .. it would be 250k here in Denver. It's a shame I love Michigan in the summer. - inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3and DOD jobs
there are a ***** load of bases out there - inactive, on 07/10/2009, -2/+5Michigan is bad, unless you're in tech. This entire sector is more or less unaffected, even in most parts of the country.
Programmers are highly sought after currently (good ones, anyway). Learn some PHP/Java/.net/whatever, maybe you'll be good at it! - MetalHead73, on 07/10/2009, -2/+5Everything's bigger in Texas, except the unemployment rate.
Now I can heartily laugh at all of you who think we're nothing but "steers and queers" over here. - fragMasterFlash, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3I got RIF'd back in November and it took nearly six months to get another job. Without a sizable severance package I would have been ruined trying to keep up with health insurance payments.
- dafragsta, on 07/10/2009, -2/+5That is the most rhetorical middle management/hack upper management speak I've ever heard. Most op staff can't quantify how much money they are making. In fact, with the exception of my new gig, I've never had a job where I could directly see a correlation between what I do and the bottom line. Most of the time, if you're a cog, you're a cog, not a lead generator or given enough freedom to innovate in an attempt to increase revenue. You just take direction and crank out your piece of the puzzle.
Is a claims filer at an insurance company a redundancy by your definition? Technically, they cost the company lots of money. - MacBandit, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3I was wrong in my statement. However large portions of Oregon are in excess of 15% but since the Portland Metro area has more than half of Oregon's population it brings down the average.
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