The example in the blog displays monthly changes in Santa Clara County's unemployment rate between 1990 and February 2009. Initially the new charting feature works only with data from the U.S ...

both dropping 2.5 percentage points. The map below shows the most recent unemployment rate for every state, according to BLS data.

The U.S. unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% in March. That’s a slight increase from February’s 4.1% pace, but the Bureau of ...

The unemployment rate is measured via the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (or CPS), which collects data from about 60,000 households by phone and in person.