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Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers

January 22, 2009
Median weekly earnings of the nation's 105.8 million full-time wage and salary workers were $728 in the fourth quarter of 2008. This was 4.0 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.6 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period. Full Text »

Consumer Price Index

January 16, 2009
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U decreased 0.7 percent in December after declining 1.7 percent in November. The index for all items less food and energy was virtually unchanged (0.0 percent) in December for the second month in a row. Full Text »

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Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2008

January 22, 2009
Among the largest counties, Rock Island County, Illinois (which borders Iowa), had the largest over-the-year gain in average weekly wages in the second quarter of 2008, with an increase of 10.5 percent coming largely from the manufacturing supersector. Full Text »

Spending on Cell Phone Services...

...Has Exceeded Spending on Residential Phone Services

Spending on Cell Phone Services Cellular phone expenditures of consumers surpassed spending on residential landline phone services beginning in 2007. Read more ยป

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