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2019 Archived articles from The Economics Daily (in chronological order)

December 2019

Number of unemployed people per job opening 1.0 or fewer since January 2018 (12/31/2019)
Access to end-of-year and holiday bonuses for private industry workers in 2019 (12/30/2019)
Alabama has largest decrease in unemployment rate for year ended November 2019 (12/27/2019)
25 states added jobs from November 2018 to November 2019 (12/26/2019)
5,250 fatal workplace injuries occurred in 2018 (12/23/2019)
8.2 million parents of children under age 18 provided eldercare in 2017–18 (12/20/2019)
U.S. terms of trade with Mexico up 1.6 percent in November 2019 (12/19/2019)
Producer Price Index for final demand up 1.1 percent for the 12 months ended November 2019 (12/18/2019)
A look at compensation costs in aircraft manufacturing on Wright Brothers Day (12/17/2019)
Real average hourly and weekly earnings up 1.1 percent from November 2018 to November 2019 (12/16/2019)
Consumer prices increase 2.1 percent in the 12 months ending November 2019 (12/13/2019)
Nonfarm business labor productivity up 1.5 percent since third quarter 2018 (12/12/2019)
People marginally attached to the labor force down 432,000 in November 2019 from a year earlier (12/11/2019)
Nonfarm employment rose by 266,000 in November 2019 (12/10/2019)
7.8 percent of people who worked or looked for work experienced unemployment in 2018 (12/09/2019)
Transportation and material moving workers experienced 184,470 injuries and illnesses in 2018 (12/06/2019)
40.4 million people provided unpaid eldercare in 2017–18 (12/05/2019)
Yuma, Arizona, had second highest unemployment rate but largest over-the-year decrease (12/04/2019)
49 metro areas had increases in nonfarm employment from October 2018 to October 2019 (12/03/2019)
Rate and number of workplace injuries and illnesses in retail trade increased in 2018 (12/02/2019)

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

29 percent of wage and salary workers could work at home in their primary job in 2017–18 (09/30/2019)
Job requirements and wages for auto mechanics in 2018 (09/27/2019)
Declining workplace fatalities in manufacturing, 2003–17 (09/26/2019)
Unemployment rates lower in five states from August 2018 to August 2019 (09/25/2019)
Nevada had the largest percentage job increase in year ending August 2019 (09/24/2019)
77 percent of private industry workers offered retirement benefits participated in them in 2019 (09/23/2019)
Benefits in businesses with 500 or more workers were 35 percent of total compensation in June 2019 (09/20/2019)
U.S. terms of trade with China decreased 1.5 percent in August 2019 (09/19/2019)
Real average hourly earnings up 1.5 percent from August 2018 to August 2019 (09/18/2019)
Consumer price changes in major metro areas, Summer 2018 to Summer 2019 (09/17/2019)
Producer prices for final demand in services increase 2.7 percent in the year ending August 2019 (09/16/2019)
Household spending on personal insurance and pensions increased the most from 2017 to 2018 (09/13/2019)
6.0 million hires and 5.8 million job separations in July 2019 (09/12/2019)
44.6 percent of high school dropouts and 72.3 percent of college graduates employed in August 2019 (09/11/2019)
Payroll employment increased by 130,000 in August 2019 (09/10/2019)
Real hourly compensation rose 2.5 percent over the year; labor productivity increased 1.8 percent (09/09/2019)
Two-thirds of wage and salary workers could take paid leave in 2017–18, up from 2011 (09/06/2019)
Baby boomers with more education had higher growth rates in real earnings at every stage of life (09/05/2019)
Elementary school teachers had median annual wage of $58,230 in 2018 (09/04/2019)
Unemployment rates down in 217 of the 389 metropolitan areas over the year ending July 2019 (09/03/2019)

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

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)