US unemployment rate (UNRATE)
Recession shading sits behind the line, so context arrives without a second chart. Series can be combined and transformed in place, which is how analysts actually read a series.
No preview is available from the publisher, so this is a diagram of the chart type, not the artifact itself.
By
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Where
Public statistics · Labour economics
Form
Interactive · to monitor
Visual
Position, Layering
You can
Add series, Transform to year on year, Change the window
Data
US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Original