Please note: This visualization won’t show up on Internet Explorer Browsers. It shows up just fine on Firefox and Chrome.

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position your your mouse over each graph and keep the pointer above the line representing the horizontal axis

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Each graph represents a different industry. Each industry has 10 years worth of data associated with it. The data are the index of weekly hours of production as reported to the bureau of labor statistics. This graphic lets you see, at a glance, which industries are increasing their weekly hours of work and which are decreasing.