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This animated map provides a striking visual of employment trends over the last business cycle using net change in jobs from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on a rolling 12-month basis.

Don't miss this short animation which provides a clear view of job growth and contraction across the USA in the past few years. You can mouse over the regions for job loss numbers. I don't know about Munich, but Atlanta has certainly been hit hard. The job losses here meet or exceed that of much larger cities. I didn't realize it was that bad here.

The Katrina Bloom is wild!

Notice the constant red in Detroit... sigh...

Detroit is the canary in the coalmine.

Detroit is only a canary if its trends lead the national average. This is not the case for job loss.

RE: The Geography of Job Losses

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Why we break

[Well... I may actually have a chance to be a Blue Angel afterall...]

Ahh the Internet: he giveth the porn and the fighter planes

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