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Hispanics will make up nearly 20 percent of the labor force in 2024 

September 28, 2016
In observation of Hispanic Heritage month, which runs every year from September 15 through October 15, The Economics Daily takes a look at some labor force statistics for Hispanic Americans. The Hispanic share of the labor force is expected to increase more than that of any other demographic group, because of both overall population growth–from higher births and increased immigration–and higher labor force participation rates. Full Text »

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• Workplace violence in education, training, and library occupations 09/01/2016
• Two-thirds of workers displaced from 2013 to 2015 were reemployed in January 2016 08/31/2016
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — July 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/31/2016
• College tuition and fees increase 63 percent since January 2006 08/30/2016
• Consumer Expenditures in 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 08/30/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: Household healthcare spending in 2014 08/30/2016
• U-6 rate 5.0 percent in South Dakota, 13.1 percent in Nevada 08/29/2016
• Productivity up in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places in 2015 08/26/2016
• Arkansas and Tennessee unemployment rates decline 1.3 percentage points from July 2015 to July 2016 08/25/2016
• Worker Displacement 2013–15 (PDF) (HTML) 08/25/2016
• Arkansas and Tennessee unemployment rates decline 1.3 percentage points from July 2015 to July 2016 08/24/2016
• New York added 37,500 jobs in July 2016 08/23/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: Impact of the strengthening dollar on U.S. import prices in 2015 08/22/2016
• Youth unemployment rate, 11.5 percent; employment–population ratio, 53.2 percent in July 2016 08/22/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: Eating and drinking in Miami: consumer expenditures, 2010–14 08/19/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Putting violence in perspective: how safe are America's educators in the workplace? 08/19/2016
• Real average hourly earnings increased 1.7 percent from July 2015 to July 2016 08/19/2016
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — July 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/19/2016
• Consumer food prices rise 0.2 percent from July 2015 to July 2016 08/18/2016
• Career Outlook: Business careers with high pay 08/17/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Injuries from falls to lower levels, 2013 08/17/2016
• Producer Price Index for final demand decreased 0.2 percent for the year ended July 2016 08/17/2016
• Employment and Unemployment Among Youth — Summer 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/17/2016
• Fuel and lubricants import prices down 22.3 percent over the year ended in July 08/16/2016
• Fuel and lubricants import prices down 22.3 percent over the year ended in July 08/16/2016
• Consumer Price Index — July 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/16/2016
• Real Earnings — July 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/16/2016
• Job openings increase 445,000 over the year ending June 2016 08/15/2016
• Commissioner's Corner: Prestigious Award for BLS and U.S. Census Bureau Researchers 08/12/2016
• Productivity decreased 0.4 percent from Q2 2015 to Q2 2016 08/12/2016
• Producer Price Index — July 2016 (HTML) (PDF) 08/12/2016
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota, had lowest metro area unemployment rate in June 2016 08/11/2016
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — July 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/11/2016
• Nonfarm employment changes for large metro areas, June 2015–16 08/10/2016
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/10/2016
• Productivity and Costs by Industry: Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, and Food Services and Drinking Places, 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 08/10/2015
• Monthly Labor Review: One hundred years of Current Employment Statistics—the history of CES sample design 08/09/2016
• Unemployment rate unchanged at 4.9 percent in July 2016 08/09/2016
• Commissioner's Corner: Why This Counts: Productivity and Its Impact on Our Lives 08/09/2016
• Productivity and Costs (P), Second Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/09/2016
• Nonfarm employment rises 2.4 million from July 2015 to July 2016 08/08/2016
• Major industries with highest employment, by state, 1990–2015 08/05/2016
• The Employment Situation — July 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/05/2016
• Career Outlook: Careers in forestry: Nature's office suite 08/04/2016
• Sports and exercise among Americans 08/04/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Introducing 2012 fixed employment weights for the Employment Cost Index 08/03/2016
• NYC metro area tops in employment of musicians, singers, and related workers 08/03/2016
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 08/03/2016
• Wages and salaries for private industry workers increase 2.6 percent over the year ended June 2016 08/02/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Price transmission within the Producer Price Index Final Demand–Intermediate Demand aggregation system 08/01/2016
• 39 percent of managers in 2015 were women 08/01/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: An analysis of long-term unemployment 07/29/2016
• Gross job gains exceed gross job losses by 1.0 million in fourth quarter 2015 07/29/2016
• Employment Cost Index — Second Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/29/2016
• Access to paid sick leave, vacations, and holidays varies by wage category 07/28/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Changes in federal and state unemployment insurance legislation in 2015 07/27/2016
• Unemployment rate highest in Alaska, lowest in South Dakota in June 2016 07/27/2016
• Business Employment Dynamics — Fourth Quarter 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 07/27/2016
• Oregon and Utah had largest percentage increase in employment since June 2015 07/26/2016
• Employment and earnings of geoscientists 07/25/2016
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/22/2016
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/22/2016
• What happened to ethanol producer prices after passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard? 07/22/2016
• Median weekly earnings increase 2.9 percent for full-time workers 07/21/2016
• Real average weekly earnings up 1.2 percent over year ending June 2016 07/20/2016
• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Second Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/19/2016
• CPI rose 1.0 percent over the year ending June 2016 07/19/2016
• Producer Price Index for final demand increases 0.3 percent for the year ended June 2016 07/18/2016
• U.S. export prices fell 3.5 percent over the year ending June 2016 07/15/2016
• Consumer Price Index — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/15/2016
• Real Earnings — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/15/2016
• Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, 2006–16 07/13/2016
• Producer Price Index — June 2016 (HTML) (PDF) 07/14/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: What happened to ethanol producer prices after passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard? 07/13/2016
• Labor productivity in elementary and secondary schools down slightly from 1989 to 2012 07/13/2016
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/13/2016
• Number of people working part time for economic reasons falls in June 2016 07/12/2016
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/12/2016
• Mining employment decreases 127,000 over the year ended June 2016 07/11/2016
• 24 percent of employed people did some or all of their work at home in 2015 07/08/2016
• The Employment Situation — June 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 07/08/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part IV: employee benefits, industries and occupations, and worker safety and health since 1980 07/07/2016
• Ice cream and frozen dessert manufacturing employment 07/07/2016
• Employment and wages in 24 newly tracked occupations 07/06/2016
• Unemployment rates decreased in 333 metropolitan areas for year ending May 2016 07/05/2016
• Nonfarm employment increases in 80 percent of metropolitan areas over the year ended May 2016 07/01/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Labor productivity growth in elementary and secondary school services: 1989–2012 06/30/2016
• 85 percent of women, 67 percent of men, spent time doing household activities on average day in 2015 06/30/2016
• Multifactor productivity in manufacturing down 1.0 percent in 2014 06/29/2016
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/29/2016
• Wages and salaries were 92 percent of income before taxes for consumers ages 25 to 34 in 2014 06/28/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Measuring quarterly labor productivity by industry 06/27/2016
• 16 percent of nonfatal workplace injuries or illnesses occurred from midnight to 8 a.m. in 2014 06/27/2016
• 17.5 percent of people with a disability employed in 2015 06/23/2016
• American Time Use Survey — 2015 Results (PDF) (HTML) 06/24/2016
• Sixteen states had statistically significant unemployment rate decreases over the past year 06/23/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part III: inflation, employment, and the labor force since 1980 06/23/2016
• Commissioner's Corner: Why This Counts: Working Together to Keep Workers Safe on the Road 06/23/2016
• Multifactor Productivity Trends in Manufacturing — 2014 (HTML) (PDF) 06/22/2016
• Oregon, Utah, Florida, Idaho, and Washington have largest percentage job gains over the year 06/22/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Labor market will shape U.S. economy in years to come 06/21/2016
• Real average hourly earnings up 1.4 percent, May 2015 to May 2016 06/21/2016
• Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 06/21/2016
• Consumer prices up 1.0 percent from May 2015 to May 2016 06/20/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: You're getting a pension: What are your payment options? 06/17/2016
• Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 06/21/2016
• Consumer prices up 1.0 percent from May 2015 to May 2016 06/20/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: You're getting a pension: What are your payment options? 06/17/2016
• Producer Price Index for final demand decreased 0.1 percent for the year ended May 2016 06/17/2016
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/17/2016
• U.S. import and export prices down over the year ending May 2016 06/16/2016
• Consumer Price Index — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/16/2016
• Real Earnings — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/16/2016
• Foreign born more likely than native born to work in service occupations 06/15/2016
• Producer Price Index — May 2016 (HTML) (PDF) 06/15/2016
• Employee benefits cost employers $10.70 per hour in March 2016 06/14/2016
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/14/2016
• Employment up in 308 of the 342 largest U.S. counties, December 2014 to December 2015 06/13/2016
• Quits account for 58 percent of all separations in April 2016 06/10/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The Monthly Labor Review at 100—The first 50 years of the Producer Price Index: setting inflation expectations for today 06/10/2016
• Unemployment rates decreased in 269 metropolitan areas for year ending April 2016 06/09/2016
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/09/2016
• Nonfarm employment increased in 327 metro areas over year ending April 2016 06/08/2016
• County Employment and Wages: Fourth Quarter 2015 (HTML) (PDF) 06/08/2016
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/08/2016
• Employment–population ratio, 59.7 percent; unemployment rate, 4.7 percent in May 06/07/2016
• Productivity and Costs (R), First Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/07/2016
• Payroll employment changed little in May 2016; up 38,000 06/06/2016
• Workplace injuries and illnesses resulting in job transfer or restriction in 2014 06/03/2016
• The Employment Situation — May 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/03/2016
• Spotlight on Statistics: A look at healthcare spending, employment, pay, benefits, and prices 06/02/2016
• Employment trends in newspaper publishing and other media, 1990–2016 06/02/2016
• Share of total spending on healthcare increased from 5 percent in 1984 to 8 percent in 2014 06/01/2016
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 06/01/2016
• Career Outlook: Interview with a geophysicist 05/31/2016
• Employment in political organizations 05/31/2016
• The Monthly Labor Review through a century of economic transformation 05/27/2016
• Unemployment rate down significantly in 19 states over the year ending April 2016 05/27/2016
• Industry employment for all states and the District of Columbia since April 1990 05/26/2016
• Foreign born make up 28 percent of labor force in Pacific states 05/25/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part II: the "middle years," 1930–80 05/24/2016
• Labor productivity rose in 15 of 28 selected service-providing industries in 2015 05/24/2016
• Multifactor productivity grew 0.4 percent annually from 2007 to 2015 05/23/2016
• Real hourly and weekly earnings up 1.3 percent over the year ending April 2016 05/20/2016
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 05/20/2016
• Energy prices down 8.9 percent over the year ended April 2016 05/19/2016
• Foreign-born Workers: Labor Force Characteristics — 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 05/19/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: The high-tech industry, what is it and why it matters to our economic future 05/18/2016
• Students less likely to work in October 2015 than in the 1980s and 1990s 05/18/2016
• Productivity and Costs by Industry: Selected Service-Providing Industries, 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 05/18/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: Employment patterns in political organizations 05/17/2016
• Final demand producer price index unchanged for the 12 months ended in April 2016 05/17/2016
• Consumer Price Index — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 05/17/2016
• Real Earnings — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 05/17/2016
• Import prices from China decrease 1.9 percent over the year ending in April 2016 05/16/2016
• Productivity up 0.6 percent for the year ending first quarter 2016 05/13/2016
• Producer Price Index — April 2016 (HTML) (PDF) 05/13/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The balance of technology, data, and values 05/12/2016
• Job openings and hires rates by industry, March 2016 05/12/2016
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 05/12/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The Monthly Labor Review at 100—part I: the early years, 1915–30 05/11/2016
• Weekly earnings by educational attainment in first quarter 2016 05/11/2016
• Duration of unemployment in April 2016 05/10/2016
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/05/2016
• Total payroll employment up 160,000; service-providing up 174,000; goods-producing down 3,000 05/09/2016
• Career Outlook: Working in a gig economy 05/09/2016
• Unemployment rates decline in over two-thirds of U.S. metro areas for year ending March 2016 05/06/2016
• The Employment Situation — April 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 05/06/2016
• Multifactor Productivity Trends—Annual 2015 (HTML) (PDF) 05/05/2016
• Employment increased for all large metropolitan areas over the last 25 years 05/05/2016
• Private employer costs for pay and benefits rose 1.8 percent from March 2015 to March 2016 05/04/2016
• Productivity and Costs (P), First Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 05/04/2016
• Gain of 231,000 jobs at firms with 250 or more employees in third quarter of 2015 05/03/2016
• Husband and wife employed in 48 percent of married-couple families in 2015 05/02/2016
• Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses, 1976–2014 04/29/2016
• Employment Cost Index — First Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/29/2016
• Commissioner's Corner: Entrepreneurship facts: Announcing new research data on job creation and destruction by firm age and size 04/28/2016
• Fatal injuries in U.S. workplaces rise in 2014 04/28/2016
• College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates — Annual 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 04/28/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Unemployment rate nears prerecession level by end of 2015 04/27/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Employment continued to expand in 2015 04/27/2016
• 42,480 work injuries involved ice, sleet, or snow in 2014 04/27/2016
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/27/2016
• Business Employment Dynamics — Third Quarter 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 04/27/2016
• Spotlight on Statistics: Self-employment in the United States 04/26/2016
• Fatal falls in the private construction industry, 2003–14 04/26/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Fertility of women in the NLSY79 04/25/2016
• Hospital workers suffered 294,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2014 04/25/2016
• Unemployment rate declined in 36 states for the year ending March 2016 04/22/2016
• Employment Characteristics of Families — 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 04/22/2016
• Beyond the Numbers: The consumer price index continued its slowdown in 2015: energy was the main factor 04/21/2016
• Idaho has largest percentage increase in employment since March 2015 04/21/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Evolution of administrative practices in American unions: results from a 20-year study 04/20/2016
• Workers in healthcare occupations most likely to have certifications or licenses in 2015 04/20/2016
• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: First Quarter 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/19/2016
• Real average hourly earnings up 1.4 percent for the year ending March 2016 04/19/2016
• Consumer prices up 3.0 percent in San Francisco area over the year ended in February 04/18/2016
• Commissioner's Corner: Why This Counts: New Timely Data on Professional Certifications and Licenses 04/15/2016
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/15/2016
• Consumer Expenditures Midyear Update — Midyear 2014–2015 (PDF) (HTML) 04/15/2016
• Producer Price Index for final demand decreased 0.1 percent for the year ended March 2016 04/15/2016
• U.S. import and export prices down over the year ending March 2016 04/14/2016
• Consumer Price Index — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/14/2016
• Real Earnings — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/14/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: The Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign initiative 04/13/2016
• Women more likely than men to have earned a bachelor's degree by age 29 04/13/2016
• Producer Price Index — March 2016 (HTML) (PDF) 04/13/2016
• Oil and gas extraction productivity up 11.4 percent in 2015 04/12/2016
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/12/2016
• Monthly Labor Review: Purchasing power: using wage statistics with regional price parities to create a standard for comparing wages across U.S. areas 04/11/2016
• Unemployment rates down in 76 percent of metro areas over the year ended February 2016 04/11/2016
• Labor Market Activity, Education, and Partner Status Among America's Young Adults at 29: Results from a Longitudinal Survey (PDF) (HTML) 04/08/2016
• Employment up more than 100,000 over the year in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas metro areas 04/08/2016
• Productivity and Costs by Industry: Manufacturing and Mining Industries, 2015 (PDF) (HTML) 04/07/2016
• Number of job openings rose to 5.4 million over the year ending February 2016 04/07/2016
• Commissioner's Corner: Data that Benefits You! 04/04/2016
• Concentration of tax preparers and accountants and auditors in 2015 04/06/2016
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — February 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/06/2016
• Unemployment rate 5.0 percent in March 2016, U-6 at 9.8 percent 04/05/2016
• Career Outlook: Employment interviewing: Seizing the opportunity and the job 04/05/2016
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — February 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/05/2016
• Payroll employment up by 215,000 in March 2016 04/04/2016
• Multifactor productivity increases at 0.7 percent annual rate in 2014 04/01/2016
• The Employment Situation — March 2016 (PDF) (HTML) 04/01/2016
• Retail salespersons and cashiers were occupations with highest employment in May 2015 03/31/2016

 

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