The Jobless Rate for People Like You

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here's an interactive graph so you can see where your demographic lands in the job market:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...ent-lines.html


here's a state-by-state unemployment rate using the numbers from September (2009):
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis..._unemployment/

you can also just Google [unemployment rate] [county, state] and it'll bring up a chart using numbers from as recent as 2 months prior (not seasonally adjusted.) you can get more raw data from the bureau of labor statistics, but it's tedious to navigate and looks like this: http://www.bls.gov/web/cpseea13.pdf

i think 44-46% of 16-to 24-year-olds are unemployed. people who enter the job market during a slump end up earning a lot less over time. these are the people who are supposed to be paying for social security benefits and stuff in the future.

i wonder what % of people strongly like charts and graphs.