America has been battling with unemployment for decades. These days, it’s on the forefront of almost everyone’s mind. But how many of you are scholars in the field of U.S. unemployment history?
Take a quick lesson with our interactive timeline that highlights some of the key events in U.S. unemployment history. The timeline starts with The Panic of 1893 and goes all the way up to today. To zoom in on one of the items, simply click on the dot.
If there are key events in U.S. unemployment history that you think we’ve missed, please feel free to add them in the comments!
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This is awesome!
A little history refresher, some of which we might not know about. It was interesting comparing the unemployment rate as of this month 2011 with previous years.
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Refresher, heck. It’s a history lesson. I guess I went to the wrong schools.
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ME CURMUDGE GUY HATE UNEMPLOYMENT CRAZY INCREASE. WE BETTER OFF CAVE LIVE BANANAS HUNT SQUIRREL.
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This CURMUDGE CAVEMAN has a point! Get back to the simplicity of basics! What ever happened with the job-training partnership act?
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This is really interesting. It’s informative, and fun.
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Excellent job on this!
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Thanks Mike!