Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes data on the unemployment rate in the United States. Usually this number is just compared with the prior month and analysts make bold statements about what this means for the economy. The unemployment rate that we hear on the first Friday of each month is often revised and can have large variances in different parts of the country. This article looks into these subtleties and the final data so it found data for every county in the US over the last 25 years. The data visualization below shows you the annualized unemployment rate from 1990-2014, allowing you to control the years presented and the geo data. http://overflow.solutions/demographic-data/25-years-of-unemployment-statistics/
