The New York Times has a really interesting interactive chart showing the jobless rate over time, broken out by age, gender, race, and education level, where you can mix and match the different demographic categories. Sort of draws out how much the usual reports saying that the unemployment rate is x% really gloss over a lot of detail. The jobless rate (as of Sept 2009) ranges from 3.6% to 48.5% depending on your demographic. Really interesting to see how much each factor affects it, and how they interplay.
Via Get Rich Slowly.