I know unemployment is a lagging indicator of the health of the economy, but it is a measurement of real human pain. I know half a dozen friends who have lost work or hours because of the recession; here’s how hard this is hitting the rest of the country:
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Ouch. More data here. My man John Garrison of Carolina Home Automation hooked me up with this data.
-the Centaur
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