Employment-Population Ratio, Part Time Workers, Unemployed over 26 Weeks

by CalculatedRisk on 8/06/2010 09:50:00 AM

Here are a few more graphs based on the employment report ...

Percent Job Losses During Recessions, aligned at Bottom

Longer. Deeper. And flat at the bottom. Unfortunately that describes the 2007 employment recession.

This graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms - this time aligned at the bottom of the recession (Both the 1991 and 2001 recessions were flat at the bottom, so the choice was a little arbitrary).

(More here.)