I recently wrote about how Oklahoma’s unemployment rate is the highest its been in 21 years. But Oklahoma’s unemployment rate pales in comparison to the unemployment rates of many other states.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million Americans currently unemployed. Those figures include people involuntarily working part-time and those who want a job but have given up trying to find one.
This interactive map serves as a vivid representation of the worsening unemployment rate by state by state, county by county, beginning in January 2007 up to September 2009, the most recent unemployment data available.
