US / A Chart on the Unrecovering Job Market Recovery

because of population growth, getting back to where we were five years ago isn’t enough. To get back to full employment, we need to have millions more jobs than we had then.

This led us to wonder: What would Scariest Jobs Chart Ever look like if you compared the past five years with comparable periods for all of the other postwar recessions. How much worse is it this time?

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor 

via The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn’t Scary Enough : Planet Money : NPR.