2019 Archived articles from The Economics Daily (in chronological order)
August 2019
- Unemployment rate lowest in Vermont, highest in Alaska, July 2019 (08/22/2019)
- 25 states added jobs from July 2018 to July 2019 (08/21/2019)
- Labor productivity up 1.8 percent from the second quarter of 2018 to the second quarter of 2019 (08/20/2019)
- Prices for U.S. imports decreased 1.8 percent for the year ending July 2019 (08/19/2019)
- Real average weekly earnings up 0.8 percent from July 2018 to July 2019 (08/16/2019)
- Food for thought: changes in consumer prices for food at home and away from home (08/15/2019)
- Labor force participation rates are higher for people with professional certifications or licenses (08/14/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.7 percent for the year ended July 2019 (08/13/2019)
- Skill levels of part-time jobs increased from 2007 to 2017 (08/12/2019)
- 1.1 million people hired in the leisure and hospitality industry in June 2019 (08/09/2019)
- New Orleans had the highest unemployment rate among large metro areas in June 2019 (08/08/2019)
- 1.5 million people marginally attached to the labor force in July 2019, unchanged over the year (08/07/2019)
- Nonfarm employment rose 164,000 in July 2019 (08/06/2019)
- Large metro area employment grew fastest in Orlando, Phoenix, and Dallas-Fort Worth, June 2019 (08/05/2019)
- Compensation costs for service occupations increased 3.7 percent from June 2018 to June 2019 (08/02/2019)
- College attendance and completion higher among millennials than youngest baby boomers (08/01/2019)
July 2019
- Workers with advanced degrees were more likely to work at home than those without in 2018 (07/31/2019)
- Labor productivity up in 13 of the 16 trade and food service industries in 2018 (07/30/2019)
- 9 out of 13 industries had net job gains in the fourth quarter of 2018 (07/29/2019)
- 77 percent of private industry workers in medical care plans with two networks in 2018 (07/26/2019)
- Nonmetropolitan areas had over half a million STEM jobs in May 2018 (07/25/2019)
- States with unemployment rates significantly different from the U.S. rate in June 2019 (07/24/2019)
- Nevada had largest percentage increase in employment over the year ended June 2019 (07/23/2019)
- Production workers 55 years and older see increase in workplace injuries and illnesses in 2017 (07/22/2019)
- Median weekly earnings for second quarter 2019 increased by 3.7 percent over the year (07/19/2019)
- Import prices down 2.0 percent, export prices down 1.6 percent, for year ended June 2019 (07/18/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand up 1.7 percent for the 12 months ended June 2019 (07/17/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings increased 1.5 percent over the 12 months ending June 2019 (07/16/2019)
- Consumer prices up 1.6 percent over 12 months ending June 2019 (07/15/2019)
- Ames, Iowa, and Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont, had lowest unemployment rates in May 2019 (07/12/2019)
- Number of job openings at 7.3 million in May 2019 (07/11/2019)
- Official unemployment rate little changed at 3.7 percent in June 2019; U-6 at 7.2 percent (07/10/2019)
- Nonfarm employment increased by 2.3 million for the year ended June 2019 (07/09/2019)
- Phoenix area leads large metropolitan employment from May 2018 to May 2019 (07/08/2019)
- On an average day in 2018, men spent 5.7 hours on leisure and sports, women spent 4.9 hours (07/05/2019)
- Employment costs up over the year by more than 3 percent in service and sales and office occupations (07/03/2019)
- Then and now: job growth in the most populated cities of 1790 (07/02/2019)
- About 15 percent of workers age 65 and older had been with employer 2 years or less in 2018 (07/01/2019)
June 2019
- Vermont and Texas at historically low unemployment rates in May 2019 (06/28/2019)
- 6 states and D.C. had at least one-fifth of their total jobs in government in May 2019 (06/27/2019)
- Crane-related work deaths trended down from 1992 to 2017 (06/26/2019)
- Total compensation costs $53.65 per hour worked in San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland in March 2019 (06/25/2019)
- 40 percent of private industry workers had access to health benefits for same-sex partners in 2018 (06/24/2019)
- Employment and unemployment where U.S. Women's National Team members play pro soccer (06/21/2019)
- U.S. import and export prices decrease over the year ending May 2019 (06/20/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings up 1.3 percent from May 2018 to May 2019 (06/19/2019)
- Consumer prices up 1.8 percent over year ended May 2019 (06/18/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand up 1.8 percent for the 12 months ended in May 2019 (06/17/2019)
- Federal government had lowest hires-per-job-opening ratio in April 2019 (06/14/2019)
- Labor productivity up in 18 of 28 selected service-providing industries in 2018 (06/13/2019)
- Unemployment rate unchanged at 3.6 percent in May 2019 (06/12/2019)
- Nonfarm employment edged up 75,000 in May 2019 (06/11/2019)
- Productivity up 2.4 percent from first quarter 2018 to first quarter 2019 (06/10/2019)
- Ready, Set, Go! Florida leads employment in private racetrack industries, 2018 (06/07/2019)
- 43.5 percent of manufacturing workers in establishments with 250 or more workers in March 2018 (06/06/2019)
- How do export prices for corn, soybeans, and wheat compare? (06/05/2019)
- April 2019 jobless rates down over the year in 306 of 389 metropolitan areas (06/04/2019)
- Ocean City, New Jersey, had largest 12-month percentage employment gain in April 2019 (06/03/2019)
May 2019
- 72.3 percent of 2018 bachelor's degree recipients were employed in October 2018 (05/31/2019)
- Pilots and air traffic controllers were highest paid transportation workers in May 2018 (05/30/2019)
- Labor force participation rate for workers age 75 and older projected to be over 10 percent by 2026 (05/29/2019)
- Foreign-born workers with a bachelor's degree and higher earned more than native born in 2018 (05/28/2019)
- Fatal work injuries among Asians, native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (05/24/2019)
- 21 states set historic lows in unemployment rates since 2010 (05/23/2019)
- Twenty-nine states had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment in April 2019 (05/22/2019)
- Fuel import prices increased 6.9 percent over the year ending April 2019 (05/21/2019)
- Employment of young men after arrest or incarceration (05/20/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings increased 1.2 percent over the 12 months ending April 2019 (05/17/2019)
- Consumer Price Index increased 2.0 percent for year ending April 2019 (05/16/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.2 percent for the year ended April 2019 (05/15/2019)
- 7.5 million job openings in March 2019 (05/14/2019)
- Nashville had lowest unemployment rate among largest metro areas in March 2019 (05/13/2019)
- Top ten largest over-the-year employment gains and losses by metropolitan area, March 2019 (05/10/2019)
- Labor productivity increased 2.4 percent from the first quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019 (05/09/2019)
- Unemployment rate 3.6 percent in April 2019, lowest since December 1969 (05/08/2019)
- Payroll employment up 2,620,000 over the year ending April 2019 (05/07/2019)
- Occupational requirements and benefits for nurses in the United States in 2018 (05/06/2019)
- Compensation costs for transportation and moving occupations up 3.5 percent from March 2018 (05/03/2019)
- Widespread declines in manufacturing labor productivity in 2018 (05/02/2019)
- Manufacturing multifactor productivity declined 1.4 percent in 2017 (05/01/2019)
April 2019
- Net employment gain of 27,000 private-sector jobs during third quarter 2018 (04/30/2019)
- Nine states at historically low unemployment rates in March 2019 (04/29/2019)
- Fatal work injuries down slightly in 2017 (04/26/2019)
- Twenty-two states had over-the-year employment increases in March 2019 (04/25/2019)
- Job requirements for hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists in 2018 (04/24/2019)
- 5.2 percent of families had an unemployed person in 2018 (04/23/2019)
- Median weekly earnings were $806 for women, $1,004 for men, in first quarter 2019 (04/22/2019)
- Number of job openings declined to 7.1 million in February 2019 (04/19/2019)
- U.S. export prices up 0.6 percent over the year ended March 2019 (04/18/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand up 2.2 percent for the 12 months ended in March 2019 (04/17/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings increased 1.3 percent over the 12 months ending March 2019 (04/16/2019)
- Consumer price changes for home furnishings and household goods and services (04/15/2019)
- February 2019 jobless rates down over the year in 283 of 389 metropolitan areas (04/12/2019)
- Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, led percent job gains among large areas since February 2019 (04/11/2019)
- Reentrants to the labor force 32.2 percent of total unemployed in March 2019 (04/10/2019)
- Employment increased by 196,000 in March 2019 (04/09/2019)
- Forty-four percent of civilian workers had access to dental care plans in March 2018 (04/08/2019)
- District of Columbia had highest share of employment in nonprofits, Nevada the lowest, in 2017 (04/05/2019)
- 21.8 million employed in office and administrative support occupations, May 2018 (04/04/2019)
- Multifactor productivity rose 1.0 percent in 2018 (04/03/2019)
- Unemployment rates declined over the month in 4 states in February 2019 (04/02/2019)
- Twenty-two states had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment in February 2019 (04/01/2019)
March 2019
- Labor force participation rate 73.5 percent in 2018 for Gulf War-era II veterans with a disability (03/29/2019)
- Compensation costs for information industry averaged $57.29 per hour worked in December 2018 (03/28/2019)
- Unemployment rate highest in El Centro, California, lowest in Ames, Iowa, January 2019 (03/27/2019)
- Midland, Texas, had largest 12-month percentage employment increase, January 2019 (03/26/2019)
- Trade, transportation, and utilities had 1.47 million job openings in January 2019 (03/25/2019)
- Women had higher median earnings than men in relatively few occupations in 2018 (03/22/2019)
- U.S. terms of trade with Latin America rise 2.6 percent for year ending February 2019 (03/21/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.9 percent for year ending February 2019 (03/20/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings up 1.9 percent over the year ending in February 2019 (03/19/2019)
- Lettuce prices up 15 percent, TV prices down 17 percent over the year ending February 2019 (03/18/2019)
- Connecticut has largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease (03/15/2019)
- Employment growth 3.9 percent in Nevada, January 2018 to January 2019 (03/14/2019)
- Employment–population ratio up over the year; labor force participation rate changed little (03/13/2019)
- Payroll employment little changed in February 2019 (03/12/2019)
- Productivity up 1.8 percent from fourth quarter 2017 to fourth quarter 2018 (03/11/2019)
- Private industry workers with sick leave benefits received 8 days per year at 20 years of service (03/08/2019)
- Eight major work stoppages in educational services in 2018 (03/07/2019)
- Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska had the highest employment–population ratios in 2018 (03/06/2019)
- New Orleans metro area economic highlights (03/05/2019)
- Ice, sleet, and snow-related occupational injury and illness rate down in 2017 (03/04/2019)
- Employment of people with a disability in 2018 (03/01/2019)
February 2019
- Job requirements for veterinary technologists and technicians (02/28/2019)
- Access to paid and unpaid family leave in 2018 (02/27/2019)
- Black women made up 53 percent of the Black labor force in 2018 (02/26/2019)
- Employment among 10 largest counties, September 2017 to September 2018 (02/25/2019)
- Hawaii and New York had highest union membership rates, the Carolinas the lowest, in 2018 (02/22/2019)
- Import prices down 1.7 percent over the past 12 months (02/21/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.0 percent for the year ended January 2019 (02/20/2019)
- Consumer prices up 1.6 percent over 12 months ending January 2019 (02/19/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings increase 1.7 percent over the year ending January 2019 (02/15/2019)
- Quits by industry, 2008 to 2018 (02/14/2019)
- Rising educational attainment among Blacks or African Americans in the labor force, 1992 to 2018 (02/13/2019)
- 20 major work stoppages in 2018 involving 485,000 workers (02/12/2019)
- Consumer Price Index: 2018 in review (02/11/2019)
- December 2018 jobless rates down over the year in 250 of 388 metropolitan areas (02/08/2019)
- Midland, Colorado Springs, and Reno had largest percent employment gains in 2018 (02/07/2019)
- Number of unemployed on temporary layoff increase by 175,000 in January 2019 (02/06/2019)
- Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 304,000 in January 2019 (02/05/2019)
- Compensation costs for private industry workers up 3.0 percent in 2018 (02/04/2019)
- Professional and business services only industry to gain over 100,000 jobs in second quarter 2018 (02/01/2019)
January 2019
- Nonfatal injuries and illnesses in finance and insurance down slightly in 2017 (01/31/2019)
- Rate of nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses decreased in aircraft manufacturing in 2017 (01/30/2019)
- A look at consolidated leave plans in 2018 (01/29/2019)
- Private employer costs for pay and benefits were $42.06 in New England in September 2018 (01/28/2019)
- Union membership rate 10.5 percent in 2018, down from 20.1 percent in 1983 (01/25/2019)
- Unemployment rates down over the year in 14 states, unchanged in 36 states and District of Columbia (01/24/2019)
- District of Columbia had highest increase in average hourly earnings over year ended December 2018 (01/23/2019)
- Median usual weekly earnings of men and women, 2010 to 2018 (01/22/2019)
- Import prices from Canada down 6.1 percent in 2018 (01/18/2019)
- Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.5 percent in 2018 (01/17/2019)
- Real average hourly earnings increase 1.1 percent over the year ending December 2018 (01/16/2019)
- Consumer Price Index rose 1.9 percent over the year ending December 2018, as energy prices fell (01/15/2019)
- Lower-wage workers pay more than higher-wage workers for employer-provided medical care benefits (01/14/2019)
- Job openings fell to 6.9 million in November 2018 (01/11/2019)
- Among large metro areas, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington had lowest jobless rate in November 2018 (01/10/2019)
- Official unemployment rate was 3.9 percent in December 2018; U-6 was 7.6 percent (01/09/2019)
- Payroll employment rose 2.6 million in 2018 (01/08/2019)
- Employment rose 5.9 percent in Reno, Nevada, from November 2017 to November 2018 (01/07/2019)
- 43.9 percent of private employment in business establishments at least 25 years old (01/04/2019)
- Workplace injuries and illnesses resulting in job transfer or restriction in 2017 (01/03/2019)
- Hoping to find some fair fares? A look at air passenger costs (01/02/2019)
