Geography of a Recession
This time series map of US unemployment before and during the current Great Recession is fairly dismaying. It looks like a smokers lung over twenty years. The Plains states appear relatively unaffected, however. I presume this is due to lower populations and dependence on agriculture, for which demand is fairly steady.
You will learn, as you age honestly, that you cannot save the world.
And yet, that is precisely what we must do, though I can think of a few individuals on whose behalf I wouldn’t work too hard