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- 40.4 million people provided eldercare in 2013–14 (09/28/2015)
- 4,679 fatal work injuries in 2014 (09/23/2015)
- More education still means more pay in 2014 (09/02/2015)
- More than half of women born in 1980–84 had a child in the household at age 27 (09/01/2015)
- Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and sex (07/23/2015)
- Time spent working by full- and part-time status, gender, and location in 2014 (07/02/2015)
- Time spent in leisure activities in 2014, by gender, age, and educational attainment (06/29/2015)
- Labor force participation of fathers in 2014 (06/19/2015)
- Largest proportion of workers with a disability work in education and health services in 2014 (06/18/2015)
- Foreign born represented 16.5 percent of the U.S. labor force in 2014, up from 14.8 percent in 2005 (05/28/2015)
- Employment of veterans by occupation, 2014 (05/22/2015)
- Multiple jobholding over the past two decades (05/20/2015)
- Daily time use among married mothers (05/08/2015)
- 80.1 percent of families had at least one employed family member in 2014 (04/29/2015)
- Baby Boomer earnings grew fastest during their late teens and early twenties (04/03/2015)
- Veteran unemployment rate decreases to 5.3 percent in 2014 (03/23/2015)
- Unemployment rate at 5.5 percent in February 2015 (03/11/2015)
- Volunteering in 2014 (02/27/2015)
- Median weekly earnings by educational attainment in 2014 (01/23/2015)
- 90 percent of young adults moved away from home by age 27 (01/08/2015)
- Work-related injuries involving days away from work in 2013 (12/31/2014)
- Full-time work and year-round work both rose in 2013 (12/23/2014)
- Unemployment rate at 5.8 percent in November 2014 (12/09/2014)
- Median weekly earnings, 2004–2014 (10/28/2014)
- Labor force participation among young moms and dads (09/29/2014)
- Median employee tenure unchanged at 4.6 years in January 2014 (09/25/2014)
- Sixty-one percent of workers displaced in 2011–2013 were reemployed in January 2014 (08/28/2014)
- Youth employment and unemployment, July 2014 (08/19/2014)
- Employment–population ratio and long-term unemployment in July 2014 (08/05/2014)
- Adults 75 and over spent 7.5 hours engaged in leisure activities on an average day in 2013 (06/27/2014)
- Men spent more time in leisure activities than did women in 2013 (06/20/2014)
- Workers with a disability more likely to be in production and transportation occupations (06/17/2014)
- Educational attainment and earnings of women (06/03/2014)
- Working wives in married-couple families, 1967–2011 (06/02/2014)
- Earnings of foreign born were 79.9 percent of native born in 2013 (05/28/2014)
- Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders had a higher labor force participation rate than Asians (05/23/2014)
- 65.9 percent of 2013 high school graduates enrolled in college (05/08/2014)
- Median weekly earnings, 2004–2014 (04/23/2014)
- Unemployment rate holds at 6.7 percent in March 2014 (04/08/2014)
- Minimum wage workers account for 4.3 percent of hourly paid workers in 2013 (04/03/2014)
- College graduates more likely than those with less education to be married at age 27 (03/28/2014)
- Unemployment rate for veterans edges down in 2013 (03/25/2014)
- Volunteering rate at 25.4 percent for year ending September 2013 (02/28/2014)
- Unemployment by sex and age, January 2014 (02/11/2014)
- Median weekly earnings at $786, fourth quarter 2013 (02/04/2014)
- Forty-nine percent of employed Asians in management, professional, and related occupations, 2012 (12/31/2013)
- U.S. unemployment rate drops to 5-year low (12/11/2013)
- Employment of women surpasses March 2008 peak (12/09/2013)
- Median weekly earnings by sex, marital status, and presence and age of own children under 18 in 2012 (12/03/2013)
- Racial and ethnic characteristics of the U.S. labor force in 2012 (11/19/2013)
- Unemployment by age, sex, and education, October 2013 (11/13/2013)
- Marriage and divorce rates among baby boomers vary by educational attainment (11/08/2013)
- Women's earnings, 1979–2012 (11/04/2013)
- Unemployment rate little changed at 7.2 percent in September 2013 (10/24/2013)
- Unemployment rate little changed at 7.3 percent in August 2013 (09/10/2013)
- Men's wages before and after long-term unemployment spells (09/06/2013)
- Youth labor force participation rate in July 2013 same as a year earlier (08/23/2013)
- July unemployment rates: adult men, 7.0 percent; adult women, 6.5 percent; teens, 23.7 percent (08/06/2013)
- Median weekly earnings, second quarter 2013 (07/24/2013)
- Time spent working in 2012 (07/16/2013)
- Daily time use among men and women in 2012 (06/27/2013)
- Labor force characteristics of persons with a disability in 2012 (06/18/2013)
- Labor force participation rates of the foreign born and native born, 2008–2012 (05/28/2013)
- Barriers to employment for persons with a disability (05/22/2013)
- Employment characteristics of families, 2012 (04/30/2013)
- Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, first quarter 2013 (04/19/2013)
- The job market for recent college graduates in the United States (04/05/2013)
- Minimum wage workers account for 4.7 percent of hourly paid workers in 2012 (03/25/2013)
- Unemployment among veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces declines in 2012 (03/22/2013)
- Unemployment rate by major worker group, February 2013 (03/12/2013)
- Young adult employment varies by education (03/07/2013)
- Volunteering declines in 2012 (02/26/2013)
- Unemployment rate 7.9 percent in January (02/05/2013)
- Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2012 (01/23/2013)
- Unemployment by sex and age, December 2012 (01/08/2013)
- Employment and unemployment experience of the U.S. population in 2011 (12/27/2012)
- Women’s earnings, 1979–2011 (11/23/2012)
- Veterans in the civilian labor force, 2011 (11/09/2012)
- Occupational employment by race and ethnicity, 2011 (10/26/2012)
- Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and ethnicity, third quarter 2012 (10/19/2012)
- Unemployment rate demographics, September 2012 (10/10/2012)
- Employee tenure in 2012 (09/20/2012)
- Access to paid leave, 2011 (09/04/2012)
- How do married parents use their time? (08/29/2012)
- International employment-population ratios, 2011 (08/14/2012)
- Labor market attachment of baby boomers by educational attainment (08/07/2012)
- Number of jobs held and job duration for baby boomers, 1978–2010 (07/31/2012)
- Weekly earnings of full-time workers by age and sex, second quarter 2012 (07/20/2012)
- Unemployment in June 2012 (07/10/2012)
- Time spent working, 2011 (07/02/2012)
- Employment and enrollment of young male veterans in the 2007–2009 recession (06/22/2012)
- Education and occupations of the foreign born in 2011 (06/06/2012)
- The employment situation in May 2012 (06/04/2012)
- Young adult employment during the recent recession (06/01/2012)
- Employment status of parents, 2011 (04/27/2012)
- Length of job search for the unemployed (04/24/2012)
- Labor force participation among students and nonstudents, October 2011 (04/20/2012)
- Median weekly earnings by race, ethnicity, and occupation, first quarter 2012 (04/19/2012)
- Working poor rate 7.2 percent in 2010 (04/05/2012)
- Employment Situation of Veterans — 2011 (03/23/2012)
- Payroll employment increases by 227,000 in February 2012 (03/12/2012)
- Characteristics of minimum wage workers in 2011 (03/06/2012)
- Work experience during 2010 (02/27/2012)
- Volunteer rate rises in 2011 (02/23/2012)
- Young adults at school and work (02/10/2012)
- Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2011 (01/26/2012)
- Employment of veterans, 2010 (11/10/2011)
- Median weekly earnings, third quarter 2011 (10/27/2011)
- Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010 (09/14/2011)
- Average time spent caring for household children, 2006–2010 (09/02/2011)
- Interactive dashboards from International Labor Comparisons (09/01/2011)
- Youth employment in July 2011 (08/26/2011)
- Women’s earnings, 1979–2010 (07/22/2011)
- Labor force characteristics of persons with a disability in 2010 (06/28/2011)
- Time spent in leisure activities, 2010 (06/27/2011)
- Work at home and in the workplace, 2010 (06/24/2011)
- Median weekly earnings in first quarter 2011 by demographics (04/25/2011)
- High school grads not enrolled in college more likely to be in the labor force (04/12/2011)
- Employment characteristics of families, 2010 (03/28/2011)
- Unemployment rates of veterans, 2010 (03/16/2011)
- Youth at college and work (02/14/2011)
- Volunteering in 2010 (01/28/2011)
- Median weekly earnings for men and women in fourth quarter 2010 (01/24/2011)
- Work experience during 2009 (12/21/2010)
- Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2010 (10/25/2010)
- Demographics of the self-employed (10/22/2010)
- Unemployment rate demographics, September 2010 (10/13/2010)
- Employee tenure, January 2010 (09/27/2010)
- Number of jobs held by baby boomers, 1978–2008 (09/24/2010)
- Youth employment and unemployment in July 2010 (09/03/2010)
- Demographics of multiple jobholding (08/09/2010)
- Demographics of Gulf War-era II veterans (08/05/2010)
- Usual weekly earnings in second quarter 2010 by education (07/26/2010)
- Average time spent caring for household children, 2005–2009 (07/01/2010)
- Percent of men and women engaged in household activities, 2009 (06/29/2010)
- Employment and unemployment of fathers without spouses (06/18/2010)
- Families with unemployed members in 2009 (06/01/2010)
- Weekly earnings in first quarter 2010 by demographics (04/20/2010)
- Youth at college and work (02/19/2010)
- Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by major occupational group and sex, 2009 (01/27/2010)
- Work-experience unemployment rate, 2008 (01/06/2010)
- Work experience during 2008 (12/11/2009)
- Hours spent on childcare by mothers and fathers, 2003–07 (12/09/2009)
- Unemployment in November 2009 (12/08/2009)
- Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2009 (10/21/2009)
- Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 2008 (10/14/2009)
- Unemployment rate demographics, August 2009 (09/04/2009)
- Youth unemployment and employment in July 2009 (08/28/2009)
- Unemployment rates of men and women in July 2009 (08/10/2009)
- Women and men in management, professional, and related occupations, 2008 (08/07/2009)
- Hours spent doing unpaid household work by age and sex, 2003–07 (08/06/2009)
- Women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio, 1979-2008 (07/31/2009)
- Education and usual weekly earnings for women and men, second quarter 2009 (07/17/2009)
- Time spent in household activities, 2008 (06/29/2009)
- Average hours that men and women worked in 2008 (06/25/2009)
- Employment and married-couple families in 2008 (05/28/2009)
- 2008 high school grads and college enrollment (04/29/2009)
- Weekly earnings in first quarter 2009 by demographics (04/17/2009)
- Labor force participation in 2008 of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era (03/25/2009)
- Unemployment and demographics in February 2009 (03/10/2009)
- School status at age 21 (01/27/2009)
- Wives earning more than their husbands, 1987-2006 (01/09/2009)
- Working in 2007 (12/24/2008)
- Working full time, year round in 2007 (12/19/2008)
- Unemployment rates by sex, November 2008 (12/09/2008)
- Earnings of women and men by race and ethnicity, 2007 (10/30/2008)
- Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 1979-2007 (10/29/2008)
- Education and time spent in primary care of children (07/09/2008)
- Employment and unemployment from age 18 to age 42 (07/01/2008)
- Household activities in 2007 (06/27/2008)
- Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 (06/26/2008)
- Married-couple families and employment, 2007 (06/01/2008)
- Married parents, household activities, and childcare (05/09/2008)
- 2007 high school grads and college enrollment (04/28/2008)
- Labor force participation of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era (04/22/2008)
- Unemployment and young veterans, 2007 (04/11/2008)
- School status at age 20 (01/31/2008)
- Work experience, 2006 (12/20/2007)
- Wives who earn more than their husbands, 1987-2005 (11/30/2007)
- Usual weekly earnings by educational attainment and sex (10/19/2007)
- Weekly earnings in second quarter 2007 by demographics (07/20/2007)
- Household activities in 2006 (07/03/2007)
- Average hours of work of men and women, 2006 (07/02/2007)
- Change in employment by major occupation and sex, 2005-06 (06/12/2007)
- Married-couple families and employment, 2006 (05/10/2007)
- 2006 high school grads and college enrollment (04/27/2007)
- Work experience of men and women in 2005 (02/12/2007)
- Volunteer rates in 2006 (01/23/2007)
- Changes in men’s and women’s labor force participation rates (01/10/2007)
- Differences in women’s earnings by educational level, 2005 (11/29/2006)
- Differences between women’s and men’s unemployment rates over the decades (11/28/2006)
- Earnings of second-generation Americans (10/17/2006)
- Unemployment of second- and third-and-higher-generation Americans (10/13/2006)
- Men’s and women’s work hours, 2005 (10/04/2006)
- Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 1979-2005 (10/03/2006)
- Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2005 (10/02/2006)
- Workers with at least ten years of employee tenure, 2006 (09/21/2006)
- Unemployment rates and demographics, July 2006 (08/07/2006)
- Working on the weekend (07/28/2006)
- Usual weekly earnings, second quarter 2006 (07/24/2006)
- Unemployment rates of veterans, 2005 (05/30/2006)
- Fewer families with children under 18 have employed parent (05/02/2006)
- Employment in married-couple families (04/28/2006)
- Weekly earnings in first quarter 2006 by demographics (04/27/2006)
- College enrollment of 2005 high school grads (03/27/2006)
- Work experience of men and women in 2004 (12/28/2005)
- Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2004 (11/03/2005)
- Growth in inflation-adjusted earnings, 1979-2004 (11/01/2005)
- Education and earnings in 2004 (10/20/2005)
- Time spent at work in 2004 (10/07/2005)
- Leisure activities in 2004 (10/06/2005)
- Age and fatal work injuries in 2004 (08/30/2005)
- Computer use at work in 2003 (08/03/2005)
- Earnings and educational attainment: second quarter of 2005 (07/21/2005)
- Wives who earn more than their husbands (06/23/2005)
- Labor force participation of mothers and fathers (06/10/2005)
- Women, men, and unions, 1983 - 2004 (05/26/2005)
- Differences in women’s earnings by educational level (05/12/2005)
- Employment of high school students rises by grade (04/28/2005)
- Jobs that have become less male-dominated (04/08/2005)
- College enrollment of 2004 high school grads (03/29/2005)
- Transition from school to work quicker as education increases (03/02/2005)
- Weekly earnings in fourth quarter 2004 by demographics (02/01/2005)
- Work experience in 2003 (12/23/2004)
- Volunteer rates in 2004 (12/17/2004)
- Differences in earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic origin (11/29/2004)
- Part-time workers: who they are and how much they earn (11/04/2004)
- Earnings and educational level in 2003 (10/29/2004)
- Occupation and earnings: third quarter of 2004 (10/21/2004)
- Unemployment in September 2004 (10/13/2004)
- Employees with 10 years or more of tenure with the same employer (09/22/2004)
- Unemployment rates of veterans (07/29/2004)
- Occupational employment of veterans (07/28/2004)
- Unemployment rates by age and the baby boom (07/22/2004)
- 2003 high school graduates and college enrollment (05/04/2004)
- Increases in men’s and women’s earnings in 2003 (04/09/2004)
- Evaluating projections of labor force participation rates (01/27/2004)
- Demographics of unemployment, December 2003 (01/12/2004)
- Women’s participation pattern is now more like men’s (01/09/2004)
- Extent of unemployment in 2002 (01/06/2004)
- Unemployment during 2002 by race, Hispanic ethnicity, and sex (12/29/2003)
- Percent of men and women that worked during 2002 (12/23/2003)
- Increase in volunteering (12/19/2003)
- Work experience rises again (10/23/2003)
- Earnings by educational attainment and sex, 1979 and 2002 (10/23/2003)
- Differences in women’s and men’s earnings by race and Hispanic origin (10/22/2003)
- Earnings and occupation: third quarter of 2003 (10/21/2003)
- Women’s earnings 78 percent of men’s in 2002 (10/16/2003)
- Earnings and educational attainment: second quarter of 2003 (07/18/2003)
- Unemployment of parents with children under 18 (07/15/2003)
- 2002 high school graduates and college enrollment (06/26/2003)
- Women’s earnings up relative to men’s in 2002 (04/23/2003)
- Women’s earnings up relative to men’s in 2002 (04/01/2003)
- Weekly earnings in the fourth quarter (01/21/2003)
- Work experience in 2001 (12/27/2002)
- College grads have highest volunteer rate (12/24/2002)
- Volunteering in the U.S. (12/19/2002)
- Using the Internet to find a job (11/06/2002)
- Over half of workers used a computer in 2001 (10/24/2002)
- Weekly earnings in the third quarter (10/22/2002)
- Weekly earnings in the second quarter (10/21/2002)
- Singles’ similar purchasing probabilities (10/18/2002)
- Gender differences in employee tenure (09/20/2002)
- Young boomers employed in three-quarters of weeks from age 18-36 (09/17/2002)
- Unemployment rates in August (09/09/2002)
- Younger boomers: nearly 10 jobs by age 36 (08/28/2002)
- Foreign-born workers and labor force growth at end of 20th century (08/16/2002)
- Projected slowdown in labor force growth (08/07/2002)
- Unemployment rates in July (08/05/2002)
- Earnings of part-timers (07/02/2002)
- Labor force participation of Vietnam-era vets in 2001 (07/01/2002)
- Paid by the hour in 2001 (06/27/2002)
- College enrollment of 2001 high school graduates (05/15/2002)
- Women of Generation X in the labor force (05/09/2002)
- Most full-timers among working poor have one labor market problem (04/23/2002)
- Weekly earnings in the first quarter (04/18/2002)
- Youths, blacks, Hispanics most likely to be working poor (04/16/2002)
- Unemployment rates in March (04/09/2002)
- Unemployment rates in February (03/12/2002)
- Weekly earnings in the fourth quarter (01/22/2002)
- Weekly earnings in the third quarter (01/18/2002)
- Labor force participation trends for women and men (12/18/2001)
- Labor force to continue to diversify (12/05/2001)
- Blacks, men most likely to experience unemployment (11/15/2001)
- Working full time, year round at new high in 2000 (11/07/2001)
- Women’s earnings 76 percent of men’s in 2000 (09/05/2001)
- Women’s earnings growth higher than men’s at all education levels, 1979-2000 (08/16/2001)
- Unemployment rates in July (08/07/2001)
- Weekly earnings by demographics in second quarter (07/20/2001)
- Tenure down for men, up for women (06/29/2001)
- Employment in families maintained by women rose in 2000 (04/20/2001)
- College enrollment of last year’s high school graduates (04/16/2001)
- Less multiple jobholding last year (03/15/2001)
- Shorter unemployment spells in 2000 (03/14/2001)
- Unemployment rate rises in January (02/05/2001)
- Gender gap in unionization closing (01/19/2001)
- Weekly earnings of full-time workers in third quarter (10/20/2000)
- Median tenure declines among older men, 1983-2000 (09/01/2000)
- Median tenure little changed in recent years (08/30/2000)
- Weekly earnings of full-time workers in second quarter (07/25/2000)
- Unemployment rates in June (07/10/2000)
- Share of families with an employed member rose in 1999 (06/16/2000)
- Labor force participation of Vietnam-era vets (06/08/2000)
- Unemployment rates in April (05/08/2000)
- Part-time workers in 1998 (02/23/2000)
- Nearly two-thirds of workers are employed year round, full time (02/01/2000)
- Gender pay gap largest in sales, lowest in farm occupations (01/24/2000)
- Unemployment in November (12/06/1999)
- Full-time working couples more common (11/02/1999)
- Men’s earnings at peak at age 45-54 (07/23/1999)
- Young women enroll in college in greater numbers than young men (06/30/1999)
- Differences in women’s and men’s earnings by age, 1979-98 (06/04/1999)
- Job absence rate higher for women than for men (03/25/1999)
- Reasons for unemployment differ by gender, age (03/19/1999)
- Women’s earnings 76 percent of median for men in 1998 (01/27/1999)
- Job tenure declines among men (10/06/1998)
- Job-related deaths are less likely for women (09/30/1998)