PDA

View Full Version : Unemployment rate, or why we're not as worse off as we think


Scarlett.
18-11-2011, 09:39 AM
Sure things are bad, but we're faaaaaaar from being at Thatcher-bad levels

http://i43.tinypic.com/34iftqu.jpg

Compare with the rest of the EU here
Google Public Data Explorer (http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country%3Auk&fdim_y=seasonality%3Asa&dl=en&hl=en&q=britain+current+unemployment+rate#ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country:uk&ifdim=country_group&hl=en&dl=en)

To put into perspective how -okay- our recovery is
http://i41.tinypic.com/mvni86.jpg