Screenshots taken from NYTimes Interactive graphic. While not the most recent unemployment data, I liked these maps because you see the the location of the house bubble and the manufacturing in the U.S. and the severity of the unemployment in many of those areas.
Housing Bubble

Unemployment rate in counties where home prices rose to at least 175% of 2000 levels.
Manufacturing

Unemployment rate in counties where at least 25 percent of earnings came from manufacturing, 1998-2000.
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Following up my last post Job Growth: Last 4 years vs Next 4 years, I took a couple of screenshots of USATODAY.com interactive graphic comparing the best and worst sectors:
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The Best: Government

The Worst: Financial activities

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Simple way to keep track job growth forecasts. USATODAY.com has created a interactive graphic updated each month with revised data from Moody’s Economy.com. Found via Interactive Narratives


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Created Stephen Heise based on OFHEO data. Found via Economix.
Red highlights those states with sale prices above their historical price trend
Blue highlights those states with sale prices below their historical price trend
Watch the automation at his site:

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Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs unemployment. (The red circle, indicating very high income, belongs to Washington DC)
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Here is a series of maps showing the unemployment rate by state from February to September of this year. This was created using screenshots from a Bureau of Labor Statistics Interactive Map
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