Visualizing the statistics
September 18, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »|
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Reuters is running a story on Wilmington, Ohio, where the recession has hit especially hard.
Unemployment in this small U.S. town has quadrupled in the past 16 months, but worse is to come as thousands of unemployed workers run out of severance money and benefits.
“Things are going to get tighter around here toward the end of the year,” said David Raizk, mayor of this town of 12,000 in southwestern Ohio. “As benefits run out we’re going to see a greater and greater dependence on the aid that’s available…”
…the local unemployment rate jumped over 14 percent in the wake of DHL’s announcement last November that it would leave the U.S. domestic market altogether with the loss of 9,500 jobs, many of them in Wilmington…
“When DHL came here we felt like we had the world by the horns,” said Mark Daley, 50, a pilot furloughed in July by ABX Air, which handles some international flights for DHL. “We had a new owner with deep pockets who knew what they were doing.”
Now, Daley may lose his home.
These days, every burg in America’s got its own Flickr pool, a collection of photos uploaded by residents. That allows for instant visual access to people and places that otherwise might have remained folded into the abstraction of small-town misery. Click here for images of Wilmington.
And if you missed the “60 Minutes” piece on Wilmington last January, here it is.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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