Color By Numbers

So we sailed on to the sun

Till we found the sea of green

And we lived beneath the waves

In our yellow submarine

--Beatles

This missive offers a color coded map comparison of the unemployment picture in December 2007 and August 2009. The darker the colors, the greater the joblessness.

Nearly a double in unemployment in a year and a half or so.

Imagine the colors if the data included all those without work.