2019 Archived articles from The Economics Daily (in chronological order)
December 2019
November 2019
- Adams County, Colorado, has largest 12-month employment increase, June 2019 (11/29/2019)
- Unemployment rates significantly lower than national rate in 15 states in October 2019 (11/27/2019)
- Retail trade employment decreases 4.5 percent in North Dakota for the year ended October 2019 (11/26/2019)
- Import and export petroleum prices down from October 2018 to October 2019 (11/25/2019)
- Import air passenger fares rose 3.4 percent in October 2019 (11/22/2019)
- Final demand Producer Price Index up 1.1 percent for the 12 months ended in October 2019 (11/21/2019)
- Real average weekly earnings up 0.9 percent over year ending October 2019, 6.9 percent since 2009 (11/20/2019)
- Consumer prices increase 1.8 percent in the 12 months ending October 2019 (11/19/2019)
- Productivity up 11.1 percent, compensation up 8.0 percent from 2009 (11/18/2019)
- Unemployment rate 1.5 percent in Ames, Iowa, and Charleston-North Charleston, South Carolina (11/15/2019)
- Nonfarm employment rises 9.4 percent in Ocean City, New Jersey, over the year ending September 2019 (11/14/2019)
- Fill rates and labor market activity (11/13/2019)
- 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses occurred in 2018 (11/12/2019)
- Management, professional, and related occupations most common among veterans and nonveterans (11/08/2019)
- Private industry compensation costs up 2.7 percent from September 2018 to September 2019 (11/07/2019)
- Unemployment rate was 3.6 percent in October 2019 (11/06/2019)
- Employment in health care increased 2.5 percent over the year ending October 2019 (11/05/2019)
- 174 firefighters were killed from 2013 to 2017 (11/04/2019)
- Gross job gains exceeded gross job losses in 10 industries over the quarter ending March 2019 (11/01/2019)
October 2019
- Employment in warehousing and storage nearly triples since January 1990 (10/31/2019)
- Injury and illness rates higher in special food services than in broader food services industry (10/30/2019)
- Employment characteristics of people with a disability in 2018 (10/29/2019)
- Union workers more likely than nonunion workers to have healthcare benefits in 2019 (10/28/2019)
- Union workers more likely than nonunion workers to have retirement benefits in 2019 (10/25/2019)
- Fatal chemical inhalations in the workplace up in 2017 (10/24/2019)
- Five states at historically low unemployment rates in September 2019 (10/23/2019)
- Twenty-seven states had over-the-year increases in nonfarm employment in September 2019 (10/22/2019)
- Median weekly earnings $606 for high school dropouts, $1,559 for advanced degree holders (10/21/2019)
- Import and export prices down 1.6 percent, September 2018 to September 2019 (10/18/2019)
- Real average weekly earnings up 0.9 percent from September 2018 to September 2019 (10/17/2019)
- Consumer Price Index increased 1.7 percent for year ending September 2019 (10/16/2019)
- Job openings and employment, August 2019 (10/15/2019)
- Portland-South Portland, Maine, had the lowest unemployment rate in August 2019 (10/11/2019)
- Producer prices for final demand up 1.4 percent for year ended September 2019 (10/10/2019)
- Number of unemployed people decreased by 275,000 to 5.8 million in September 2019 (10/09/2019)
- Payroll employment increased by 136,000 in September 2019 (10/08/2019)
- Ocean City, New Jersey, employment up 7.0 percent over the year ended August 2019 (10/07/2019)
- Finding a place to eat on National Taco Day (10/04/2019)
- Fifty-nine pilots died of a fatal workplace injury in 2017 (10/03/2019)
- Hispanic share of the labor force projected to be 20.9 percent by 2028 (10/02/2019)
- Most unemployed people in 2018 did not apply for unemployment insurance benefits (10/01/2019)
September 2019
August 2019
- 51 metropolitan areas have employment gains from July 2018 to July 2019 (08/30/2019)
- How much money do Americans spend on lottery tickets? (08/29/2019)
- Tennessee and Hawaii have highest job concentration of musical groups and artists (08/28/2019)
- Baby boomers born from 1957 to 1964 held an average of 12.3 jobs from ages 18 to 52 (08/27/2019)
- Midland, Texas, has largest job gain, San Francisco largest wage gain, among largest U.S. counties (08/26/2019)
- Youth labor force participation rate at 61.8 percent in July 2019, a 9-year high (08/23/2019)
- 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
June 2019
May 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