USAToday.com has a cool interactive map where you can click to look at quarterly jobs past and future for states and cities across the country, from 2005 until about mid-2012.
Er, the interactivity is great. The data it shows isn't all that cool.
I'll randomly pick a city from the middle of the list: They're projecting a 2.8% drop in jobs in Lawrence, Kansas, for 2009. Jobs numbers will continue to fall until about mid-2010, when the numbers will start to rise.
Of the cities covered, job losses are expected to be greatest in Detroit, MI, Bradenton, FL, Jackson, MI, and Elkhart, IN, all of which are expected to see greater than 8% drops in 2009. However, they're projecting a turnaround to an increase in jobs in all of those cities by the third or fourth quarter of 2010.
The map covers 384 metro areas from Abilene, TX, to Yuma, AZ, as well as each state and the District of Columbia.
It shows absolute numbers of jobs, and shows percentage change - increases and decreases over time.
You can look at the data for all jobs in your selected geographic region, or specific categories like Construction, Manufacturing, Retail Trade and Transportation.
The forecast was created by Moody's Economy, based on the the DOL Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey.
Thanks to Tricia at Worksystems for sharing the link!
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