(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Chronological listing

January 2009

• Import prices in December 2008 (01/15/09)
• Job openings, hires, and total separations rates in November 2008 (01/14/09)
• Unemployment in December 2008 (01/13/09)
• Payroll employment in December 2008 (01/12/09)
• Wives earning more than their husbands, 1987-2006 (01/09/09)

• Labor force participation rate of mothers, 1975-2007 (01/08/09)
• Women and employment by industry (01/07/09)
• Involuntary part-time work (01/06/09)
• Changes in health care spending patterns of older Americans (01/05/09)
• Activities of high school students by age (01/02/09)

December 2008

• Not-for-profit sector and employment (12/31/08)

• 401(k) plans and employer stock (12/30/08)
• Occupational injuries and illnesses, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (12/29/08)
• Working in 2007 (12/24/08)
• Work-experience unemployment rate in 2007 (12/23/08)
• Mass layoff events in November 2008 (12/22/08)

• Working full time, year round in 2007 (12/19/08)
• Real average weekly earnings up in November 2008 (12/18/08)
• Consumer Price Index in November 2008 (12/17/08)
• Export prices in November 2008 (12/16/08)
• Producer prices fell in November 2008 (12/15/08)

• Import prices down again in November 2008 (12/12/08)
• Compensation costs per hour worked in private industry, September 2008 (12/11/08)
• Job openings rate in October 2008 (12/10/08)
• Unemployment rates by sex, November 2008 (12/09/08)
• Payrolls in November 2008 (12/08/08)

• Wages in architecture and engineering occupations by sector (12/05/08)
• Productivity growth in third quarter 2008 revised upward (12/04/08)
• Working in the electric power industry (12/03/08)
• Musculoskeletal disorders and days away from work in 2007 (12/02/08)
• Jobs with most injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work (12/01/08)

November 2008

• Real average weekly earnings, October 2008 (11/28/08)
• Consumer expenditures in 2007 (11/26/08)
• Quarterly job gains and losses, March 2008 (11/25/08)

• Mass layoffs, October 2008 (11/24/08)
• Injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work by age in 2007 (11/21/08)
• CPI in October 2008 (11/20/08)
• PPI in October 2008 (11/19/08)
• Reason for extended mass layoffs, third quarter 2008 (11/18/08)

• Import prices decline further in October 2008 (11/17/08)
• Job openings by industry, September 2008 (11/14/08)
• Airline employment: takeoff and descent (11/13/08)
• Payroll employment in October 2008 (11/12/08)
• Unemployment in October 2008 (11/10/08)

• Productivity growth in third quarter 2008 (11/07/08)
• Wages in the nonprofit and private sectors, 2007 (11/06/08)
• Employer shares of medical plan premiums, March 2008 (11/05/08)
• Compensation costs in State and local government, September 2008 (11/04/08)
• Employment costs in private industry, September 2008 (11/03/08)

October 2008

• Women’s earnings by occupation in 2007 (10/31/08)
• Earnings of women and men by race and ethnicity, 2007 (10/30/08)
• Women's earnings as a percentage of men's, 1979-2007 (10/29/08)

• Employment growth and decline by county, March 2007-2008 (10/28/08)
• Workplace injury and illness rates by industry in 2007 (10/27/08)
• Injury and illness rate down again in 2007 (10/24/08)
• Mass layoff actions in September 2008 (10/23/08)

• Mixed-education occupations, 2006-16 (10/22/08)
• Weekly earnings in the third quarter of 2008 (10/21/08)
• Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2008 (10/20/08)
• Consumer Price Index in September 2008 (10/17/08)
• Producer Price Index down again in September 2008 (10/16/08)

• Export prices decrease in September 2008 (10/15/08)
• Import prices decline again in September 2008 (10/14/08)
• Reasons for extended mass layoff events in the New York area, 1996-2006 (10/10/08)
• Multiple jobholding in States in 2007 (10/09/08)
• Job openings rate in August 2008 (10/08/08)

• Unemployment and demographics in September 2008 (10/07/08)
• Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2008 (10/06/08)
• Variation in life insurance benefits by establishment size, 2008 (10/03/08)
• Manufacturing unit labor costs fell in 2007 in Taiwan, Japan, U.S. (10/02/08)
• Employee tenure by industry, 2008 (10/01/08)

September 2008

• International factory productivity gains, and losses, in 2007 (09/30/08)

• Employees with 10 years or more of tenure with the same employer, 2008 (09/29/08)
• New Employment Cost Indexes for selected metropolitan areas (09/26/08)
• Variation in medical care benefits by occupation, 2008 (09/25/08)
• Mass layoff events in August 2008 (09/24/08)
• Export prices decline in August 2008 (09/23/08)

• Over-the-month changes in State unemployment rates, August 2008 (09/22/08)
• Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/08)
• Real average weekly earnings, August 2008 (09/18/08)
• CPI in August 2008 (09/17/08)
• Variation in worker earnings by occupation, July 2007 (09/16/08)

• PPI down in August 2008 (09/15/08)
• Import prices drop in August 2008 (09/12/08)
• Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2008 (09/11/08)
• Hires rate in July 2008 (09/10/08)
• Payroll employment in August 2008 (09/09/08)

• Unemployment in August 2008 (09/08/08)
• Manufacturing productivity in second quarter of 2008 (09/05/08)
• Working poor and education in 2006 (09/04/08)
• Summer 2008 labor force participation of youth (09/03/08)
• Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries, 1987-2006 (09/02/08)

August 2008

• Unemployment among youth, Summer 2008 (08/29/08)

• On-the-job fatalities due to falls in 2007 (08/28/08)
• Displaced workers’ earnings at new jobs, January 2008 (08/27/08)
• Workplace homicides in 2007 (08/26/08)
• Mass layoffs in July 2008 (08/25/08)
• Reason for job losses among displaced workers (08/22/08)

• Fatal work injuries in 2007 (08/21/08)
• Producer Price Index in July (08/20/08)
• Gross job gains and losses: fourth quarter 2007 (08/19/08)
• Extended mass layoffs by industry, second quarter 2008 (08/18/08)
• Consumer Price Index in July (08/15/08)

• Import prices in July 2008 (08/14/08)
• Job openings rate in June 2008 (08/13/08)
• Unit labor costs in manufacturing, second quarter 2008 (08/12/08)
• Productivity in second quarter 2008 (08/11/08)
• Retirement and medical care benefits in 2008 (08/08/08)

• Energy PPI in 2007 (08/07/08)
• More seniors working full time (08/06/08)
• Payroll employment in July 2008 (08/05/08)
• Unemployment in July 2008 (08/04/08)
• Change in wages and salaries in constant dollars, June 2007-June 2008 (08/01/08)

July 2008

• Projected growth in labor force participation of seniors, 2006-2016 (07/31/08)
• Counties with largest gains and losses in employment, December 2006-2007 (07/30/08)

• Labor force participation of seniors, 1948-2007 (07/29/08)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2007 (07/28/08)
• Counties with highest average weekly wages at the end of 2007 (07/25/08)
• Mass layoffs in manufacturing, June 2008 (07/24/08)
• Surgical technologists (07/23/08)

• Earnings of bachelor’s degree recipients 10 years after graduation (07/22/08)
• Earnings and education in the second quarter of 2008 (07/21/08)
• Real earnings, June 2008 (07/18/08)
• CPI in June 2008 (07/17/08)
• Producer prices in June 2008 (07/16/08)

• Export prices in June 2008 (07/15/08)
• Import prices up again in June (07/14/08)
• The unemployment rate and beyond (07/11/08)
• Hires rate down in May 2008 (07/10/08)
• Education and time spent in primary care of children (07/09/08)

• Unemployment rate unchanged in June 2008 (07/08/08)
• Payrolls in June 2008 (07/07/08)
• Coal mining fatalities (07/03/08)
• Working at home in 2007 (07/02/08)
• Employment and unemployment from age 18 to age 42 (07/01/08)

June 2008

• Youngest boomers: 10.8 jobs from ages 18-42 (06/30/08)

• Household activities in 2007 (06/27/08)
• Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 (06/26/08)
• Earnings in nine largest occupations, May 2006 (06/25/08)
• Employment in the residential framing contractors industry (06/24/08)
• Mass layoffs, May 2008 (06/23/08)

• Occupations with different wage variations (06/20/08)
• Employment of fast food cooks by metropolitan area, May 2006 (06/19/08)
• PPI in May 2008 (06/18/08)
• Real average weekly earnings, May 2008 (06/17/08)
• CPI in May 2008 (06/16/08)

• Import prices, May 2008 (06/13/08)
• Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2008 (06/12/08)
• Job openings rate in April 2008 (06/11/08)
• Payroll employment in May 2008 (06/10/08)
• Increase in unemployment rate in May 2008 (06/09/08)

• Quits as a percentage of separations, 2007 (06/06/08)
• Productivity growth in first quarter 2008 revised upward (06/05/08)
• Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2007 (06/04/08)
• Families and unemployment, 2007 (06/03/08)
• Married-couple families and employment, 2007 (06/02/08)

May 2008

• Energy prices and expenditures in the South, 1984-2006 (05/30/08)

• Experimental CPI for Americans 62 years of age and older (05/29/08)
• More school, more play (05/28/08)
• Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2006 (05/27/08)
• Mass layoffs down in April 2008 (05/23/08)
• Job losses and gains in the third quarter of 2007 (05/22/08)

• Producer prices in April 2008 (05/21/08)
• Job openings by industry, March 2008 (05/20/08)
• Extended mass layoffs by industry, first quarter 2008 (05/19/08)
• Real average weekly earnings in April 2008 (05/16/08)
• Consumer prices in April 2008 (05/15/08)

• Import prices in April 2008 (05/14/08)
• Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2007 (05/13/08)
• Office and administrative occupations in 2007 (05/12/08)
• Married parents, household activities, and childcare (05/09/08)
• Productivity in first quarter 2008 (05/08/08)

• Multifactor productivity in private business, 2007 (05/07/08)
• Unemployment demographics, April 2008 (05/06/08)
• Payrolls in April 2008 (05/05/08)
• Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2006 (05/02/08)
• Change in compensation costs, December 2007-March 2008 (05/01/08)

April 2008

• Unemployment rate 26.9 percent among recent dropouts (04/30/08)
• Recent high school graduates and labor force participation, October 2007 (04/29/08)

• 2007 high school grads and college enrollment (04/28/08)
• Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers (04/25/08)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2008 (04/24/08)
• Unemployment in 2007 (04/23/08)
• Labor force participation of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era (04/22/08)

• Trends in industry employment in 2007 (04/21/08)
• Real average weekly earnings, March 2008 (04/18/08)
• CPI in March 2008 (04/17/08)
• PPI in March 2008 (04/16/08)
• Export prices in March 2008 (04/15/08)

• Import prices, March 2008 (04/14/08)
• Unemployment and young veterans, 2007 (04/11/08)
• County employment: largest growth and decline, September 2006- 2007 (04/10/08)
• Job openings in February (04/09/08)
• Payroll employment in March 2008 (04/08/08)

• Unemployment rate up in March 2008 (04/07/08)
• State and local government workers’ access to quality-of-life benefits (04/04/08)
• Employer premiums for medical care plans in State and local government (04/03/08)
• Occupations and foreign-born workers in 2007 (04/02/08)
• Educational attainment of foreign born labor force (04/01/08)

March 2008

• Foreign-born workers by region, 2007 (03/31/08)

• Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2006 (03/28/08)
• Foreign-born workers and unemployment, 2007 (03/27/08)
• Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/08)
• Commercial divers (03/25/08)
• Mass layoffs up in February (03/24/08)

• Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2006 (03/21/08)
• Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2007 (03/20/08)
• Producer prices in February 2008 03/19/08)
• Real earnings, February 2008 (03/18/08)
• Consumer prices in February 2008 (03/17/08)

• Import prices in February 2008 (03/14/08)
• Hires and separations in 2007 (03/13/08)
• U.S. skiing employment (03/12/08)
• Unemployment rates by demographics, February 2008 (03/11/08)
• Payrolls in February 2008 (03/10/08)

• Unit labor costs in manufacturing, fourth quarter 2007 (03/07/08)
• Productivity growth in fourth quarter 2007 (03/06/08)
• 2006-07 changes in State unemployment rates (03/05/08)
• Highest State unemployment rates in 2007 (03/04/08)
• Lowest State unemployment rates in 2007 (03/03/08)

February 2008

• Korea had largest manufacturing productivity gain in 2006 (02/29/08)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs in January 2008 (02/28/08)
• PPI in January 2008 (02/27/08)
• Extended mass layoffs, 2007 (02/26/08)
• Duration of work stoppages beginning in 2007 (02/25/08)

• Real average weekly earnings, January 2008 (02/22/08)
• CPI in January 2008 (02/21/08)
• Export prices in January 2008 (02/20/08)
• Import prices in January 2008 (02/19/08)
• Extended mass layoffs by industry, fourth quarter 2007 (02/15/08)

• More workers idled by work stoppages in 2007 (02/14/08)
• Job openings and labor turnover in 2007 (02/13/08)
• Manufacturing compensation costs in U.S. and abroad, 2006 (02/12/08)
• Union membership by industry, 2007 (02/11/08)
• Manufacturing unit labor costs up in 2007 (02/08/08)

• Productivity growth in 2007 (02/07/08)
• Compensation costs in state and local government up 4.1 percent in 2007 (02/06/08)
• Unemployment and age, January 2008 (02/05/08)
• January 2008 payroll employment 02/04/08)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent in 2007 02/01/08)

January 2008

• School status at age 20 (01/31/08)

• Education and volunteering (01/30/08)
• Union membership by State, 2007 (01/29/08)
• Union membership in 2007 (01/28/08)
• Mass layoffs in 2007 (01/25/08)
• Volunteering in 2007 (01/24/08)

• Employment growth and decline by county, June 2006-2007 01/23/08)
• States with lowest unemployment rates in December 2007 01/22/08)
• Real average weekly earnings, December 2006-December 2007 01/18/08)
• Consumer Price Index up 4.1 percent in 2007 01/17/08)
• Producer prices in December 2007 01/16/08)

• Export prices in 2007 01/15/08)
• Import prices in December 2007 01/14/08)
• Hires rates by region, November 2006 and November 2007 01/11/08)
• Industries losing the most jobs, 2006-16 01/10/08)
• Contributing towards medical care coverage 01/09/08)

• Unemployment and labor force participation at the end of 2007 01/08/08)
• Payroll employment up by 1.3 million in 2007 01/07/08)
• Projected growth in professional occupations, 2006-16 01/04/08)
• Medical care benefits for lower and higher wage workers 01/03/08)
• Work-experience unemployment rate in 2006 01/02/08)