Tag Archives: maps

Hitting the road

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: November 16, 2009

We’ve written before about WNYC’s Your Uncommon Economic Indicators (YUEI for lack of a better term!) project, which asks listeners to send in videos, stories, and photos showing how the economic downturn is being seen on a street-by-street level. This is just one of several projects mapping the economy, but now the technology behind YUEI [...]

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More fun with maps

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: October 23, 2009

Last night on the NewsHour, Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation explained the thinking behind mapping different types of communities and how looking at location and context together create a deeper picture of what the American economy looks like.
“But it’s more than that, because, when you break the counties out into these types, as we [...]

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Mapping the global economy

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: September 11, 2009

Times are hard in the U.S. But how do they compare to the downturn worldwide?
A World of Trouble is an interactive map showing unemployment and other hardship indexes by country and connecting them with real-life examples.
For instance, the entry for China talks about how many fewer migrant workers are seen in Beijing now that [...]

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“Less bad” or a true sign of recovery?

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: June 19, 2009

Jobless rates are still rising, with states like Michigan and California reporting ranks of the unemployed exceeding ten percent for the first time since World War II. So how could things actually be slowly improving?
Looking at the NPR unemployment map, which organizes the May numbers released today state-by-state, the picture doesn’t look good. The [...]

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