A Different View Of Layoffs

This ain’t no big thing but we’re digging the Wall Street Journal’s interactive graphic showing some of the biggest layoffs in America since the recession began.

You can sort by industry, by company, or by a few other methods.

Here, we’ve sorted the layoffs chronologically. The huge yellow bar represents when Circuit City laid off 34,000—all of its workforce—in January of this year.

Put that way, everything since then is….not where a healthy economy should be, to be sure, but not as bad.

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