The Bikini Graph

by Karoli on April 2, 2010 · 0 comments

That’s what Rachel Maddow calls it. Via Steve Benen, this very cool graph telling me there’s hope out there…Hope is good.

Benen writes:

But today’s news is nevertheless the most encouraging we’ve seen in a long time. The unemployment rate has dropped, and the monthly report far exceeded expectations.

Once more, here’s my homemade chart, showing job losses by month, starting in January 2008, a month after the recession began.