Unemployment During the Great Recession

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this is a long post.  The plots of the United States measure the biannual changes in the unemployment rate by state beginning in January 2008.  Low rates of unemployment are yellow and high rates, dark red.

January 2008.

July 2008

January 2009

July 2009

January 2010

July 2010

January 2011

July 2011

January 2012