Unemployment is Stressful

The Associated Press has a cool interactive map that tells whether or not a county is under more stress as measured by unemployement, foreclosures and bankruptcies. Alameda Country where I live, the stress level rose (bad) by more than 5 points this year to 14.73, but went down (good) by almost a half a point last month (due to a reduction in the unemployment rate - wait 'til I file.)  In comparison, the stress level was 6.75 in October of 2007 before the recession started.