Putting yesterday's job report in perspective: many people have put up some version of this chart 1/ 
Here's another way to put it in perspective: BLS says that if measured properly unemployment would be 16.3%. That's far above Great Recession; how does it compare with Great Depression? Data from Millennial Historical Statistics 2/
The reason it doesn't feel like the Great Depression is emergency relief, which has compensated many workers for lost wages. But almost all the relief will expire over the next 2 months 3/
This will cause great hardship and could cause a relapse in the economy too. Unfortunately, GOP opposition to further relief has been reinforced by 1 good month 4/
