this is to suggest what ??
facts
"construction lost nearly 2 million jobs from the start of the recession through the second quarter of 2010. This accounts for about 25% of all private-sector jobs lost"
obviously the percentage drop of construction was well above
the percentage drop of all other jobs
so how do you illustrate that ?
by cutting off most of the other jobs
and slapping the construction sector on top of that stub
the flux of the stub is way larger then the whole force flux ..sans construction sector
hows that more comparable to the construction flux
its fuckin way less its totaly non comparable
nothing is worse then chopping off the bottom what 90 plus %
of the rest of the jobs 125 m- 115 m jobs = 10 m 125m x 8%= 10
want to compare the shape ?
that is better done by scaling up the construction numbers 7 m x 17 = 119m
so scale up 17.5 x or so
use a scale on both sides with absolute numbers ..blah blah blah
showing the two streams of numbers in proportion to themselves
but not to each other gives the eye the sense of each streams relative flux
if the notion is to show job loss with and without construction jobs
do that
but whatever you do
don't do what you did
when you do what you did
the next time you do it
update
here the same geefs do it right
if their maths right ...
i got an itch on that
but
to prove their point honestly
they needed to do it this way
their point ?
the housing bubble blow out
didn't create the bulk of the present unemployment over hang
to counter ?
since that sectors pre burst employment was bubble driven and not coming back
if it now was a large chunk of the unemployed ....
btw the sector prolly had a lot of submarines working for pay that don't show
but that's another story
