January 08, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Private-sector employment up modestly in DecemberPrivate-sector payroll employment grew by just 49,000 in December (seasonally adjusted), with overall growth held down by declines in manufacturing, construction, and help supply services. In the goods-producing sector, manufacturing employment fell by 62,000 in December, bringing its loss for the year to 178,000. Construction employment fell by 13,000 in December, affected for the second month in a row by adverse weather. In the service-producing sector, employment in services rose by 81,000 over the month. Help supply services lost 58,000 jobs in December, its third consecutive monthly decline. Over the last 3 months of 2000, total payroll employment gains averaged 77,000, compared with an average monthly gain of 187,000 during the first 9 months of the year and 229,000 a month for all of 1999. These data are a product of the BLS Current Employment Statistics Program. Find out more in "The Employment Situation: December 2000," news release USDL 01-02. Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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