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2000 Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk (in chronological order)

December 2000

Multifactor productivity increases modestly in many manufacturing industries (12/29/2000)
Child care resource and referral services much more common in large workplaces (12/28/2000)
Non-mandated improvements account for most of light truck quality change (12/27/2000)
Another decrease in days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses (12/26/2000)
Consumer expenditures rise 4.2 percent in 1999 (12/22/2000)
Injuries and illnesses in goods-producing and service-producing industries in 1999 (12/21/2000)
New York County leads in pay in 1999 (12/20/2000)
Decline in on-the-job injuries and illnesses continues (12/19/2000)
Consumer prices up slightly in November (12/18/2000)
Producer prices edge up in November (12/15/2000)
Export prices unchanged in November (12/14/2000)
Job leavers not a good gauge of worker confidence (12/13/2000)
San Jose ranks first in annual pay (12/12/2000)
Payroll job total grew slowly in November (12/11/2000)
Most 16-year-old students work for pay (12/08/2000)
Third-quarter productivity growth revised downward (12/07/2000)
Connecticut, New York tops in pay (12/06/2000)
Highest productivity growth in computer industry (12/05/2000)
Fewer extended mass layoffs in 1999 (12/04/2000)

November 2000

Working full time, year round at record high (11/30/2000)
Biggest hike in pay in San Jose (11/29/2000)
Comparing hourly earnings measures (11/28/2000)
Mining industry continues to be highest paid, retail trade lowest (11/27/2000)
Declines in labor costs among manufacturing industries (11/24/2000)
Employed women about as likely as men to be looking (11/21/2000)
Washington State, Massachusetts lead in pay gains (11/20/2000)
Consumer prices in October (11/17/2000)
Productivity rises in most manufacturing industries (11/16/2000)
Experience of unemployment continues to decline (11/15/2000)
Value of quality changes in 2001 model-year cars (11/14/2000)
Producer prices up again in October (11/13/2000)
Import prices fall in October (11/09/2000)
Multiple jobholding rates higher in North (11/08/2000)
Job search rate declines with age (11/07/2000)
Payroll employment in October (11/06/2000)
Productivity increases again (11/03/2000)
Union membership shows distinct geographic pattern (11/02/2000)
Teens with jobs—where does the money go? (11/01/2000)

October 2000

Less job hunting by employed workers (10/31/2000)
Small change in benefit costs for State and local government workers (10/30/2000)
Compensation costs rise 0.9 percent from June to September (10/27/2000)
Producer prices for telephone communications continue to decline (10/26/2000)
Earnings by occupation in 1998 (10/25/2000)
U.S. factory costs dip compared to competitors (10/24/2000)
Unit labor costs in manufacturing increased the most in Japan and Korea in 1999 (10/23/2000)
Weekly earnings of full-time workers in third quarter (10/20/2000)
Consumer prices in September (10/19/2000)
U.S. led factory productivity gains in 1999 (10/18/2000)
Producer prices for health care services in 1999 (10/17/2000)
Producer prices up in September after August decline (10/16/2000)
Import prices in September (10/13/2000)
Stock options most likely for the higher paid (10/12/2000)
Cable TV providers plug in to higher prices (10/11/2000)
Unemployment in September (10/10/2000)
Small number of industries involved in largest strikes (10/06/2000)
Types of jobs in cable TV and in broadcasting (10/05/2000)
New price indexes for insurance industries (10/04/2000)
Pay TV employment charges along (10/03/2000)
Computer prices dip again (10/02/2000)

September 2000

Labor market problems of poor full-timers (09/29/2000)
Consumer prices edge down in August (09/28/2000)
Singapore has biggest fall in hourly compensation in 1999 (09/28/2000)
Consumer prices rise 0.2 percent in July (09/28/2000)
Dropouts most likely to be working poor (09/27/2000)
Second-quarter extended mass layoffs trend downward (09/26/2000)
65-and-over group gives most (09/25/2000)
Seventh annual rise in multifactor productivity (09/22/2000)
Fewer hours, fewer benefits (09/21/2000)
Nearly 7.2 million working poor in 1998 (09/20/2000)
Average weekly hours drop in all retail trade industries (09/19/2000)
Producer prices decline in August (09/15/2000)
Petroleum import prices up slightly in August (09/14/2000)
Food stamp households budget more of spending on basics (09/13/2000)
When one job isn’t enough (09/12/2000)
Farmers have highest percentage of older workers (09/11/2000)
No change in foreign wage differential (09/08/2000)
Productivity figure revised upward (09/07/2000)
Changes in average weekly hours, 1964-99 (09/06/2000)
Private-sector payroll employment edges up in August (09/05/2000)
Median tenure declines among older men, 1983-2000 (09/01/2000)

August 2000

Jobs most affected by baby-boomer retirements (08/31/2000)
Median tenure little changed in recent years (08/30/2000)
Part-timers earn more in some health care jobs (08/29/2000)
Youth labor force participation this summer (08/28/2000)
Job-related homicides continue to decline (08/25/2000)
Summer youth unemployment rate lowest since 1969 (08/24/2000)
Majority of working 15- to 17-year olds earn above minimum wage (08/23/2000)
On-the-job deaths due to falls in 1999 (08/22/2000)
Nature of job most frequent reason for shift work (08/21/2000)
Fatal work injuries in 1999 (08/18/2000)
Bigger establishment, usually better benefits (08/15/2000)
Producer prices show no change in July (08/14/2000)
Petroleum import prices fall in July (08/11/2000)
Risk of displacement remains highest in manufacturing (08/10/2000)
Productivity jumps in second quarter (08/09/2000)
Eating and drinking places industry hire the most 15-year-olds (08/08/2000)
Payroll employment in July (08/07/2000)
Pay gap crosses occupational lines (08/04/2000)
Service workers on alternative shifts more often (08/03/2000)
Compensation costs for State and local government workers rise 3.5 percent (08/02/2000)
Youth working in high school more likely to be employed in future (08/01/2000)

July 2000

European jobless rates look lower when adjusted to U.S. concepts (07/31/2000)
Compensation costs up 4.6 percent over the year (07/28/2000)
Risk of lost worktime injuries for youth (07/27/2000)
Executives most likely to have flexible work hours (07/26/2000)
Weekly earnings of full-time workers in second quarter (07/25/2000)
Youths from higher-income families more likely to work (07/24/2000)
Labor supply in a tight labor market (07/21/2000)
Wages of salespersons in 1998 (07/20/2000)
Consumer prices rise 0.5 percent in June (07/19/2000)
Common occupations for 15-year-olds: cashiers and cooks (07/18/2000)
Producer prices up in June due to energy price increase (07/17/2000)
Petroleum import prices rise again (07/14/2000)
Retirees spending more on health insurance (07/13/2000)
Health care 5½ percent of compensation (07/12/2000)
Singles eat out more (07/11/2000)
Unemployment rates in June (07/10/2000)
Price of fun falls (07/07/2000)
Wages and benefits highest in Northeast (07/06/2000)
Public assistance and family characteristics (07/05/2000)
Income and meals away from home (07/03/2000)

June 2000

Average compensation $21.16 per hour (06/30/2000)
Assistance recipients spend bigger share on basics (06/29/2000)
Let’s do lunch (06/28/2000)
More seniors are mortgage free (06/27/2000)
Medical care inflation up in 1999 (06/26/2000)
Employment of mothers with infants decreases (06/23/2000)
No rise in new vehicle prices for three years (06/22/2000)
Longer hours at the top? (06/21/2000)
Third drop in a row for consumer durables prices (06/20/2000)
Food prices increase less in 1999 than 1998 (06/19/2000)
Share of families with an employed member rose in 1999 (06/16/2000)
CPI up 0.1 percent in May (06/15/2000)
No change in producer prices in May (06/12/2000)
Import, export prices up in May (06/09/2000)
Labor force participation of Vietnam-era vets (06/08/2000)
Factory productivity increases at 7.3-percent annual rate in first quarter (06/07/2000)
Earnings of female college graduates up 4.7 percent in 1999 (06/06/2000)
Drop in private-sector employment in May (06/05/2000)
Productivity rose fastest in computer factories (06/02/2000)

May 2000

Productivity up in many service-producing and mining industries (05/31/2000)
Benefits bigger piece of union compensation (05/30/2000)
Increases in real earnings vary by occupation (05/26/2000)
Over half of youth are students; half of students are in labor force (05/25/2000)
Compensation costs in State and local government, 1999 (05/22/2000)
Private sector wages rose faster than benefits last year (05/19/2000)
Decline in college enrollment rate (05/18/2000)
Consumer prices unchanged in April (05/17/2000)
Trends in health insurance (05/16/2000)
Producer prices down in April (05/15/2000)
Import Price Index posts first decline since June 1999 (05/12/2000)
Growth in air transport jobs (05/11/2000)
Hourly benefits $5.58 in 1999 (05/10/2000)
Speedy growth of air courier industry (05/09/2000)
Unemployment rates in April (05/08/2000)
Productivity gain in first quarter (05/05/2000)
Sprains, strains by far the most common injuries resulting in time away from work (05/04/2000)
National Security largest component of work-related aircraft fatalities (05/03/2000)
Increases in wages and salaries and benefits, March 1999-March 2000 (05/02/2000)
Fatal and nonfatal falls in the workplace (05/01/2000)

April 2000

Employment costs rise in March (04/28/2000)
Taxicabs have by far the greatest work-related homicide risk (04/27/2000)
About one in five workers have supervisory role (04/26/2000)
Union-nonunion wage gap narrows (04/25/2000)
Lost-worktime injuries and illnesses (04/24/2000)
College grads have biggest wage increase in 1999 (04/21/2000)
Pay premium grows through the ranks (04/20/2000)
Decline in work-related homicides (04/19/2000)
Highest risk of falls in construction (04/18/2000)
Consumer prices rise in March (04/17/2000)
Producer prices up 1.0 percent again in March (04/14/2000)
Import prices in March (04/13/2000)
Robbery by far the most common motive for work-related homicides (04/12/2000)
Growth and overtime higher in durables factories (04/11/2000)
Payroll employment in March (04/10/2000)
Consumers spend more on food away from home (04/07/2000)
Labor force participation and Social Security (04/07/2000)
Wage differences among industries (04/06/2000)
Work-related homicide rates highest among cabbies, cops (04/05/2000)
Midwest has lowest unemployment rate again (04/04/2000)
Industries with the highest percentages of college grads (04/03/2000)

March 2000

Transportation equipment makers added the most overtime (03/31/2000)
Distribution of consumer expenditures in 1998 (03/30/2000)
Lowest unemployment rates in decades at end of 1999 (03/29/2000)
Consumer expenditures rise modestly in 1998 (03/28/2000)
More counters compared to population: Census 2000 (03/27/2000)
Overtime contributes to factory recovery (03/24/2000)
Strong growth in managerial and professional occupations in 1999 (03/23/2000)
Counting the counters: Census 2000 (03/22/2000)
Job leavers larger share of unemployed (03/21/2000)
Consumer prices last month (03/20/2000)
Producer prices rise 1.0 percent in February (03/17/2000)
February rise in import prices largest since 1990 (03/16/2000)
Unit labor costs fall in fourth quarter (03/15/2000)
Total job openings, 1998-2008: replacement and growth (03/14/2000)
Managers, laborers unemployed longest in 1999 (03/13/2000)
Manufacturing productivity surges in fourth quarter (03/10/2000)
Midwest has lowest unemployment rate again (03/09/2000)
Productivity rise in fourth quarter largest since 1992 (03/08/2000)
West Virginia reports highest level of unemployment (03/07/2000)
Hourly earnings up 4 cents (03/06/2000)
Days of idleness due to work stoppages at new low (03/03/2000)
Fewer mass layoffs in 1999 (03/02/2000)
Iowa reports lowest unemployment rate in 1999 (03/01/2000)

February 2000

Workers idled by work stoppages in 1999 (02/29/2000)
Unemployment decline widespread in 1999 (02/28/2000)
Work stoppages at 53-year low (02/25/2000)
Largest number of truckdriver highway fatalities occurred in Texas in 1998 (02/24/2000)
Part-time workers in 1998 (02/23/2000)
Consumer prices in January (02/22/2000)
Producer prices in January (02/18/2000)
Rises in import prices by locality of origin in January (02/17/2000)
Changes in women’s labor force participation in the 20th century (02/16/2000)
Wages, occupations, and job duties (02/15/2000)
Women’s share of labor force to edge higher by 2008 (02/14/2000)
Collisions are the most common cause of truckdriver fatalities (02/11/2000)
Fewer individuals experienced unemployment in 1998 (02/10/2000)
Productivity increase in 1999 (02/09/2000)
Farmers projected to have largest job loss in 1998-2008 (02/08/2000)
Labor force and employment rates at highs (02/07/2000)
Truckdriver highway fatalities most common in summer (02/04/2000)
Travis County, Texas had biggest pay increase in 1998 (02/03/2000)
Union members earn more in most industries (02/02/2000)
Nearly two-thirds of workers are employed year round, full time (02/01/2000)

January 2000

Compensation costs up 3.4 percent in 1999 (01/31/2000)
Services industry projected to gain the most jobs in 1998-2008 (01/28/2000)
Jacksonville, NC, has lowest annual pay (01/27/2000)
Gender pay gap largest in sales, lowest in farm occupations (01/24/2000)
The top-paying service occupations in 1998 (01/21/2000)
Protective service occupations have highest union membership rate (01/20/2000)
Hourly compensation still higher in Europe than U.S. (01/19/2000)
Consumer prices in 1999 (01/18/2000)
Producer prices for finished goods up 3.0 percent in 1999 (01/14/2000)
Import and export prices rise in 1999 (01/13/2000)
Hourly compensation drops the most in Korea in 1998 (01/12/2000)
Montana had the lowest pay in 1998 (01/11/2000)
Job growth in December (01/10/2000)
Los Angeles County experiences largest employment gains (01/07/2000)
Where the dollar stretches most, least (01/06/2000)
Pay increase largest in finance again (01/05/2000)
Variation in unit labor costs by industry (01/04/2000)
Austin had highest 1998 pay increase (01/03/2000)