Job Losses In Recent Recessions

Here is a very disturbing graph of unemployment that has been published by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.
When I sent this to my friend Richard Homonoff, he replied:

You might want to take a look at William J Polley's blog post titled, "Employment losses continue to be in line with 1981-82 recession."

He looks at the eleven recessions since WWII.

He has a chart that is more comprehensive than Pelosi's.

In the chart below from that reference, the current unemployment line is in orange, is situated about in the middle of the pack and ends at 12 months.



It does appear to me that the Speaker is simplifying things to support her arguments in an unfair way. I don't think either side of the debate should do this -- even it if fits my own leanings. That only weakens your argument once smart people (like Richard) start digging deeper.

Says what we all think...

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Things I ran across today

Charles Kuralt: We listened to Charles Kural's America on the way down to Florida.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuralt
• http://www.rememberingcharleskuralt.com/editorial.htm
• http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/14/lkl.00.html
• http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=charles+kuralt

Alan Berliner: Early Sunday morning, we saw part of a documentary by Alan Berliner on Sleeplessness. It was fascinating and this guy is a very good documentary film director/producer.

• http://www.alanberliner.com/index.html
• http://store.hbo.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2646795&cp=1890186
• http://www.slate.com/id/2166758/

EasyBloom: Very clever device for measuring environmental conditions for growing plants. Came from a discussion on xBBN about devices for measuring sunlight.

• http://www.easybloom.com/buy/overview.html

BirdCam: Nice sealed camera case that shoots automatically when it detects motion. Put right in front of your bird feeder for terrific closeups.

• http://www.wingscapes.com/
• http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?M=WINGSCAPES&ID=3514159&ref=GB

I did not run across the groundhog today.