Mapping Every Single Job in the U.S. [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/17/154:00 AM

One of the best visualizations of race in America might be called pointillist. By mapping one dot for every Census-registered human in the country, color-coded for race, a team at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center of Public Service rendered abstract social data painfully personal.

Robert Manduca, a Harvard PhD student in sociology and a mapmaker, has brought the power of the dot to a new dataset: Jobs. Using 2010 LEHD Census data, and much of the code that brought the racial dot map to life, Manduca created an interactive map of one dot for every job location in America.

Red dots represent manufacturing and trade. Blue dots are professional services. Green represents healthcare, education, and government. Yellow is retail, hospitality, and other services.

[For more of this story, written by Laura Bliss, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...ob-in-the-us/398480/]

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During my second term of national service with VISTA, our initial training took place at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. At one point, we were supposed to visit an assortment of agencies, and come back to Durham to report on them. One person who visited the Housing Authority in Manchester, told about a map he observed there, with pushpins in the map for every Latino/Hispanic household in the city.....

Since our definition of "Full Employment" is based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics definition...in the U.S. "Full Employment" is based on 3% Unemployment. (In France, "Full Employment" is based on 0% unemployment). In the U.S. with its Incarceration Rates, Are they counting Prison Laborers as "employed"?

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