Metropolitan Unemployment

This visualization shows the distribution of unemployment for 380 U.S. metropolitan areas from January 2000 to December 2012. I’m currently weighting each area equally, but it would probably be better to weight areas by the size of the civilian labor force. Thanks to Kevin Quealy for suggesting this dataset, which was the basis for his earlier graphic!

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