Nathalie Abejero

These posts are a collection of dissociated ramblings on my thoughts on politics, work in foreign aid, life as an expat and incidental travels. A writing theme may one day be a good idea, but for now it’s a personal website to make updates available to friends and family  more in “About me”

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It’s that time of career again.. I think I’ll ditch the traditional format and go infographic this time, and what a timely Cool Infographics post! I’m keen on cartographic visuals, like this not-quite-but-somewhere-along-the-lines resume by Jordan Carroll:

Check this video out. The Asian Century has never been more real, yet it’s still surreal for those of us used to a western-centric world. Presented so compellingly by Hans Rosling, the public health infographic brains behind the Gapminder, this modeling sends home a message that isn’t new but is quite amazing even for the rapidly changing times we live in.

Quoted from Silicon Alley Insider, the chart above by Calculated Risk…

… shows the decline in jobs as a percentage of the work force at the peak.

To date in this recession, we’ve lost more than 8 million jobs.  The decline as a percentage of the workforce is the worst since the Great Depression, matching the sharp but short drop in 1948, as the war machine wound down.

Equally important, the duration of these job losses, as well as the lack of a sharp recovery (at least so far), suggests that the problem will be with us for a long while.  We’re now 24 months into this decline, and we’re still at the bottom.  By this point in most previous recessions, we had already recovered all of the lost jobs.

Wow.