Up 0.1% from August.

As I mentioned in a post I wrote a few days ago, the U.S. unemployment rate is now at 9.8%. The image above shows who among us is affected by these numbers and how things progressed; it’s also a nice piece of data visualization, too.

Via Nathan from Flowing Data. View a large, zoom-able version of this piece here. You can check out some of Nathan’s other awesome data visualization projects here.