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WHAT'S NEW ARCHIVES 2008

ARCHIVES 2008

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July

The Employment Situation, June 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 07/03/2008

Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: July 3, 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 07/03/2008
Coal mining fatalities 07/03/2008
Monthly Labor Review - June 2008 Issue 07/02/2008
Working at home in 2007 07/02/2008
Employment and unemployment from age 18 to age 42 07/01/2008

June

"The Unemployment Rate and Beyond: Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 06/30/2008

Youngest boomers: 10.8 jobs from ages 18-42 06/30/2008
"Why Has Unemployment Risen? Insights From Labor Force Flows," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 06/27/2008
Household activities in 2007 06/27/2008
Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market Activity, and Earnings Growth Among the Youngest Baby Boomers: Results From a Longitudinal Survey (PDF) (HTML) 06/27/2008
Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 06/26/2008

Earnings in nine largest occupations, May 2006 06/25/2008
American Time Use Survey--2007 results (PDF) (HTML) 06/25/2008
Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2006 — BLS Bulletin 2703 06/24/2008
Employment in the residential framing contractors industry 06/24/2008
Mass layoffs, May 2008 06/23/2008

Mass Layoffs in May 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/20/2008
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, May 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/20/2008
Occupations with different wage variations 06/20/2008
Employment of fast food cooks by metropolitan area, May 2006 06/19/2008
PPI in May 2008 06/18/2008

Producer Price Indexes, May 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/17/2008
Real average weekly earnings, May 2008 06/17/2008
Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2004: A Collection of Data and Analysis (includes a chart book) 06/16/2008
CPI in May 2008 06/16/2008
Consumer Price Index, May 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/13/2008

Real Earnings in May 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/13/08
Import prices, May 2008 06/13/2008
U.S. Import-Export Price Index, May 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/12/2008
Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2008 06/12/2008
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/11/2008

Job openings rate in April 2008 06/11/2008
Job Openings and Labor Turnover, April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 06/10/2008
Payroll employment in May 2008 06/10/2008
Increase in unemployment rate in May 2008 06/09/2008
Producer Price Index (PPI) Transitions to New Computer System 06/06/2008

The Employment Situation, May 2008 06/06/2008
Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: June 6, 2008 06/06/2008
Quits as a percentage of separations, 2007 06/06/2008
Productivity growth in first quarter 2008 revised upward 06/05/2008
Productivity and Costs, First Quarter 2008, revised 06/04/2008

Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2007 06/04/2008
Families and unemployment, 2007 06/03/2008
Chart book: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2006 06/03/2008
Married-couple families and employment, 2007 06/02/2008
Monthly Labor Review - May 2008 Issue 06/02/2008

May

"Local Employment Trends in Residential Framing Contractors: Five Counties," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 05/30/2008
Employment Characteristics of Families in 2007 05/30/2008
Energy prices and expenditures in the South, 1984-2006 05/30/2008
Experimental CPI for Americans 62 years of age and older 05/29/2008
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment, April 2008 05/28/2008

More school, more play 05/28/2008
Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2006 05/27/2008
Mass layoffs down in April 2008 05/23/2008
Mass Layoffs in April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/22/2008
Job losses and gains in the third quarter of 2007 05/22/2008

NCS: Retirement Benefits in State and Local Governments in the United States, 2007 (PDF) 05/22/2008
Business Employment Dynamics, Third Quarter 2007 05/21/2008
Productivity and Costs by Industry: Selected Service-Providing and Mining Industries, 2006 05/21/2008
Producer prices in April 2008 05/21/2008
Producer Price Indexes, April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/20/2008

Job openings by industry, March 2008 05/20/2008
"Sports and Exercise," BLS Spotlight on Statistics 05/19/2008
Extended mass layoffs by industry, first quarter 2008 05/19/2008
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/16/2008
Real average weekly earnings in April 2008 05/16/2008

Extended Mass Layoffs, First Quarter 2008 05/15/2008
Job Openings and Labor Turnover, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/15/2008
Consumer prices in April 2008 05/15/2008
Consumer Price Index, April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/14/2008
Real Earnings in April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/14/2008

Import prices in April 2008 05/14/2008
U.S. Import-Export Price Indexes, April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/13/2008
Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2007 05/13/2008
Office and administrative occupations in 2007 05/12/2008
Occupational Employment and Wages, 2007 05/09/2008

Married parents, household activities, and childcare 05/09/2008
Married Parents' Use of Time, 2003-06 05/08/2008
Productivity in first quarter 2008 05/08/2008
Productivity and Costs, First Quarter 2008, preliminary (PDF) (HTML) 05/07/2008
Multifactor productivity in private business, 2007 05/07/2008

Preliminary Multifactor Productivity Trends, 2007 05/06/2008
Unemployment demographics, April 2008 05/06/2008
Payrolls in April 2008 05/05/2008
Monthly Labor Review - April 2008 Issue 04/11/2008
The Employment Situation, April 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/02/2008

Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: May 2, 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 05/02/2008
Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2006 05/02/2008
Occupational Outlook Quarterly--Spring 2008 Issue 05/01/2008
Multifactor Productivity Trends in Manufacturing, 2006 05/01/2008
Change in compensation costs, December 2007-March 2008 05/01/2008

April

Employment Cost Index, March 2008 04/30/2008

Unemployment rate 26.9 percent among recent dropouts 04/30/2008
BLS Kids' Pages Updated 04/29/2008
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/29/2008
Recent high school graduates and labor force participation, October 2007 04/29/2008
2007 high school grads and college enrollment 04/28/2008

College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2007 High School Graduates 04/25/2008
Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers 04/25/2008
Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2008 04/24/2008
Mass Layoffs in March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/23/2008
Unemployment in 2007 04/23/2008

Labor force participation of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era 04/22/2008
Trends in industry employment in 2007 04/21/2008
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/18/2008
Real average weekly earnings, March 2008 04/18/2008
Usual Weekly Earnings, First Quarter 2008 04/17/2008

Revised 2006 Worker Fatalities Data Now Available (PDF) 04/17/2008
CPI in March 2008 04/17/2008
Consumer Price Index, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/16/2008
Real Earnings in March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/16/2008
PPI in March 2008 04/16/2008

Producer Price Indexes, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/15/2008
Export prices in March 2008 04/15/2008
Import prices, March 2008 04/14/2008
Monthly Labor Review - March 2008 Issue 04/11/2008
U.S. Import-Export Price Indexes, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/11/2008

Unemployment and young veterans, 2007 04/11/2008
Employment Situation of Veterans: 2007 04/10/2008
County employment: largest growth and decline, September 2006- 2007 04/10/2008
County Employment and Wages, Third Quarter 2007 04/09/2008
Job openings in February 04/09/2008

Job Openings and Labor Turnover, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/08/2008
Payroll employment in March 2008 04/08/2008
Unemployment rate up in March 2008 04/07/2008
The Employment Situation, March 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/04/2008
Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: April 4, 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/04/2008

State and local government workers’ access to quality-of-life benefits 04/04/2008
Employer premiums for medical care plans in State and local government 04/03/2008
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 04/02/2008
Occupations and foreign-born workers in 2007 04/02/2008
Educational attainment of foreign born labor force 04/01/2008

March

Foreign-born workers by region, 2007 03/31/2008
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/28/2008
Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2006 03/28/2008
Multifactor Productivity Trends, 2006 (PDF) (HTML) 03/27/2008

Foreign-born workers and unemployment, 2007 03/27/2008
Foreign Born Workers: Labor Force Characteristics in 2007 03/26/2008
Retirement benefits of State and local government workers 03/26/2008
Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2007 03/25/2008
NCS: Employee Benefits in State and Local Governments in the United States, September 2007 (PDF) 03/25/2008

Commercial divers 03/25/2008
Employee Benefits in State and Local Government, September 2007 03/25/2008
Mass layoffs up in February 03/24/2008
Mass Layoffs in February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/21/2008
Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2006 03/21/2008

Productivity and Costs by Industry: Manufacturing, 2006 (PDF) (HTML) 03/20/2008
Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2007 03/20/2008
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/19/2008
Producer prices in February 2008 03/19/2008
The 2009 President’s Budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics 03/18/2008

Producer Price Indexes, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/18/2008
Real earnings, February 2008 03/18/2008
"Around the World in Eight Charts," BLS Spotlight on Statistics 03/17/2008
Consumer prices in February 2008 03/17/2008
Consumer Price Index, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/14/2008

Real Earnings in February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/14/2008
Import prices in February 2008 03/14/2008
U.S. Import-Export Price Indexes, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/13/2008
Hires and separations in 2007 03/13/2008
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, December 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 03/12/2008

Job Openings and Labor Turnover, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/12/2008
U.S. skiing employment 03/12/2008
Experimental All Employee Hours and Earnings Series by State 03/11/2008
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/11/2008
Unemployment rates by demographics, February 2008 03/11/2008

Payrolls in February 2008 03/10/2008
Monthly Labor Review - February 2008 Issue 03/07/2008
The Employment Situation, February 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/07/2008
Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: March 7, 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 03/07/2008
Unit labor costs in manufacturing, fourth quarter 2007 03/07/2008

Productivity growth in fourth quarter 2007 03/06/2008
2006-07 changes in State unemployment rates 03/05/2008
Productivity and Costs, Fourth Quarter 2007, revised (PDF) (HTML) 03/05/2008
Highest State unemployment rates in 2007 03/04/2008
Lowest State unemployment rates in 2007 03/03/2008

February

Occupational Outlook Quarterly--Winter 2007-08 Issue 02/29/2008
Regional and State Unemployment, 2007 Annual Averages 02/29/2008
Korea had largest manufacturing productivity gain in 2006 02/29/2008
International Comparisons of Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labor Cost Trends, 2006 revised 02/28/2008
Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs in January 2008 02/28/2008

Industries at a Glance – Expanded and Improved 02/27/2008
Mass Layoffs in January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/27/2008
PPI in January 2008 02/27/2008
Producer Price Indexes, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/26/2008
Extended mass layoffs, 2007 02/26/2008

Duration of work stoppages beginning in 2007 02/25/2008
Real average weekly earnings, January 2008 02/22/2008
CPI in January 2008 02/21/2008
Consumer Price Index, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/20/2008
Real Earnings in January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/20/2008

Export prices in January 2008 02/20/2008
Import prices in January 2008 02/19/2008
"U.S. Skiing Employment: East and West," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 02/15/2008
U.S. Import-Export Prices Indexes, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/15/2008
Extended mass layoffs by industry, fourth quarter 2007 02/15/2008

Business Employment Dynamics, Second Quarter 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 02/14/2008
Extended Mass Layoffs, Fourth Quarter 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 02/14/2008
More workers idled by work stoppages in 2007 02/14/2008
Major Work Stoppages in 2007 02/13/2008
Job openings and labor turnover in 2007 02/13/2008

2007 Annual Average Tables of Labor Force Statistics (from the Household Survey) Now Available 02/12/2008
Job Openings and Labor Turnover, December 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 02/12/2008
Manufacturing compensation costs in U.S. and abroad, 2006 02/12/2008
Union membership by industry, 2007 02/11/2008
Monthly Labor Review - January 2008 Issue 02/08/2008

Discontinuance of mailing of paper copies of BLS news releases 02/08/2008
Manufacturing unit labor costs up in 2007 02/08/2008
Productivity growth in 2007 02/07/2008
Productivity and Costs, Fourth Quarter 2007, preliminary (PDF) (HTML) 02/06/2008
Compensation costs in state and local government up 4.1 percent in 2007 02/06/2008

Unemployment and age, January 2008 02/05/2008
January 2008 payroll employment 02/04/2008
The Employment Situation, January 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/01/2008
Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: February 1, 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 02/01/2008
Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent in 2007 02/01/2008

January

Employment Cost Index, December 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 01/31/2008
School status at age 20 01/31/2008

Education and volunteering 01/30/2008
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment, December 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 01/29/2008
Union membership by State, 2007 01/29/2008
Union membership in 2007 01/28/2008
Union Members in 2007 01/25/2008

International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing, 2006 01/25/2008
Mass layoffs in 2007 01/25/2008
Mass Layoffs in December 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/24/2008
Volunteering in 2007 01/24/2008
America's Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20 01/23/2008

Volunteering in the United States, 2007 01/23/2008
Employment growth and decline by county, June 2006-2007 01/23/2008
States with lowest unemployment rates in December 2007 01/22/2008
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment, December 2007 (PDF) (HTML) 01/18/2008
Real average weekly earnings, December 2006-December 2007 01/18/2008

County Employment and Wages, Second Quarter 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/17/2008
Usual Weekly Earnings, Fourth Quarter 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/17/2008
Consumer Price Index up 4.1 percent in 2007 01/17/2008
Consumer Price Index, December 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/16/2008
Real Earnings in December 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/16/2008

Producer prices in December 2007 01/16/2008
Producer Price Indexes, December 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/15/2008
Export prices in 2007 01/15/2008
Latest State and Area "Employment & Earnings" Tables, Establishment Survey Data 01/14/2008
Import prices in December 2007 01/14/2008

U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, December 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/11/2008
Hires rates by region, November 2006 and November 2007 01/11/2008
Monthly Labor Review - December 2007 Issue 01/10/2008
Job Openings and Labor Turnover, November 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/10/2008
Industries losing the most jobs, 2006-16 01/10/2008

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment, November 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/09/2008
Contributing towards medical care coverage 01/09/2008
Unemployment and labor force participation at the end of 2007 01/08/2008
Payroll employment up by 1.3 million in 2007 01/07/2008
Current Employment Statistics Series Changes with the Forthcoming Update to NAICS 2007 and Annual Benchmark Release 01/04/2008

The Employment Situation, December 2007 (PDF) (TXT) 01/04/2008
Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation: January 4, 2008 (PDF) (TXT) 01/04/2008
Projected growth in professional occupations, 2006-16 01/04/2008
Medical care benefits for lower and higher wage workers 01/03/2008
Work-experience unemployment rate in 2006 01/02/2008

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