(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Projections
- Employment projections for major industries, 2010–20 (02/02/2012)
- Top searches on the BLS website (01/21/2011)
- Occupations with increasing employment, 2008–2018 (05/06/2010)
- Employment projections for major industries, 2008-18 (01/04/2010)
- The baby-boom generation to remain in the labor force (12/31/2009)
- Employment change by major occupational group, 2008-18 (12/24/2009)
- Industries with the most new jobs, 2008-18 (12/17/2009)
- Mixed-education occupations, 2006-16 (10/22/2008)
- Industries losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (01/10/2008)
- Projected growth in professional occupations, 2006-16 (01/04/2008)
- Self-employment in 2016 (12/31/2007)
- Occupations losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (12/28/2007)
- Industries with the most new jobs, 2006-16 (12/19/2007)
- Occupations with the largest projected job growth, 2006-16 (12/07/2007)
- Labor force projected at 164.2 million by 2016 (12/05/2007)
- “STEM” occupations and job growth (06/28/2007)
- Changes in men’s and women’s labor force participation rates (01/10/2007)
- Labor force growth: past, present, and future (01/04/2007)
- Occupations with the most job openings for college graduates, 2004-14 (09/28/2006)
- Healthcare employment for workers without a bachelor's degree (09/26/2006)
- The labor force in 2014: race and Hispanic origin (01/03/2006)
- Industries with the most new jobs, 2004-14 (12/30/2005)
- Occupations with the largest job growth, 2004–14 (12/22/2005)
- Service-providing sector and job growth to 2014 (12/19/2005)
- Occupational groups and projections, 2004-14 (12/13/2005)
- Labor force projected at 162.1 million by 2014 (12/08/2005)
- High-technology employment (08/31/2005)
- Fastest growing industries (03/24/2004)
- Projected employment in high-paying occupations requiring a bachelor's or graduate degree (03/17/2004)
- Projected employment in high-paying occupations requiring less than a bachelor's degree (03/15/2004)
- Employment projections for the goods-producing sector, 2002-12 (03/10/2004)
- Employment growth in the service-providing sector, 2002-12 (03/04/2004)
- Occupations with the largest job decline, 2002-12 (02/25/2004)
- Age and labor force projections: 2002-12 (02/20/2004)
- Fastest growing occupations through 2012 (02/12/2004)
- Evaluating projections of labor force participation rates (01/27/2004)
- Evaluating 1988–2000 employment projections (01/07/2004)
- Assessing the 1988-2000 employment growth projections (05/29/2003)
- Accuracy of growth projections for health care occupations (05/28/2003)
- When the future becomes the past: 1988-2000 projections for large occupations (05/23/2003)
- Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers (01/10/2003)
- Consumer spending and job growth (01/09/2003)
- Projected slowdown in labor force growth (08/07/2002)
- Most new jobs to be in services or retail trade (01/09/2002)
- Occupations losing the most jobs, 2000-10 (01/04/2002)
- Labor force participation trends for women and men (12/18/2001)
- Industries on the wane, 2000-2010 (12/12/2001)
- Youth segment of labor force to grow fastest (12/11/2001)
- Fastest growing industries, 2000-2010 (12/06/2001)
- Labor force to continue to diversify (12/05/2001)
- Fastest growing jobs, 2000-2010 (12/04/2001)
- Five million new jobs in
just ten occupations (07/03/2001)
- The labor force is getting older (06/26/2001)
- Slower growth in labor force expected in next 25 years (06/25/2001)
- Total job openings,
1998-2008: replacement and growth (03/14/2000)
- Farmers projected to have largest job loss in 1998-2008 (02/08/2000)
- Services industry projected to gain the most jobs in 1998-2008 (01/28/2000)
- Occupations with the largest growth, 1998-2008 (12/29/1999)
- Fast-growing industries vs. fast-going industries (12/27/1999)
- The
"grayby" boom ages the labor force (12/20/1999)
- The labor force in 2008:
race and Hispanic origin (12/14/1999)
- More
than two-thirds of projected fastest growing occupations are in high
wage jobs (12/09/1999)
- Education requirements and
job growth (12/07/1999)
- Service sector dominant
source of new jobs (12/03/1999)
- Millennial
themes: age, education, services (12/01/1999)
- Projections of service worker
employment generally on target (06/18/1999)
- Assessing projections of
management jobs (06/16/1999)
- BLS total employment projections usually
close (06/14/1999)
- Temporary workers in professional occupations
expected to increase (02/24/1999)
- Abundant career opportunities projected in
information technology (10/28/1998)
- Defense-related employment decline projected
to slow (10/08/1998)
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: The Recession of 2007–2009
The most recent recession in the United States began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, though many of the statistics that describe the U.S. economy have yet to return to their pre-recession values. In this Spotlight, we present BLS data that compare the recent recession to previous recessions.
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