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December 2006

Prices of exported consumer goods higher in 2005 (12/29/2006)
Prices of imported capital goods down again in 2005 (12/28/2006)
Multiple jobholding in 2005 (12/27/2006)
Mass layoffs by region in November (12/26/2006)
Mass layoffs up in November (12/22/2006)

Cost of benefits for State and local government employees, September 2006 (12/21/2006)
PPI in November 2006 (12/20/2006)
Real earnings in November (12/19/2006)
CPI in November (12/18/2006)
Import prices in November (12/15/2006)

Employer costs for employee compensation, September 2006 (12/14/2006)
Job openings rates by industry in October 2006 (12/13/2006)
Payroll employment in November (12/12/2006)
Unemployment rates and demographic groups in November 2006 (12/11/2006)
Large increase in women's educational attainment (12/08/2006)

Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2002, 2003, and 2004 (12/07/2006)
Productivity growth revised upward in the third quarter (12/06/2006)
Women in the professions (12/05/2006)
Labor force participation rate of mothers (12/04/2006)
Hourly compensation of production workers in the U.S. and selected countries, 2005 (12/01/2006)

November 2006

Employment trends in residential and nonresidential construction (11/30/2006)
Differences in women's earnings by educational level, 2005 (11/29/2006)
Differences between women's and men's unemployment rates over the decade (11/28/2006)
Mass layoffs in October 2006 (11/27/2006)

Quality changes in 2007 passenger cars and light trucks (11/24/2006)
Gross job gains and losses: first quarter 2006 (11/22/2006)
Real average weekly earnings in October 2006 (11/21/2006)
Sprains and strains again most common workplace injury (11/20/2006)
CPI in October 2006 (11/17/2006)

Reasons for extended layoff separations, third quarter of 2006 (11/16/2006)
Producer prices in October 2006 (11/15/2006)
Export prices in October 2006 (11/14/2006)
Import prices in October 2006 (11/13/2006)
Consumer expenditures in 2005 (11/09/2006)

Job openings rates by industry in September 2006 (11/08/2006)
Payroll employment by industry, October 2006 (11/07/2006)
Unemployment rate in October 2006 (11/06/2006)
Productivity in third quarter 2006 (11/03/2006)
State and local government employment costs up 1.4 percent from June to September (11/02/2006)
Compensation costs in private industry up 3.0 percent over the year (11/01/2006)

October 2006

Workplace violence prevention programs and policies (10/31/2006)

Workplace violence in 2005 (10/30/2006)
Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, March 2005-March 2006 (10/27/2006)
Mass layoffs in September (10/26/2006)
Incidence rates of nonfatal occupational illnesses by industry, 2005 (10/25/2006)
International comparisons of harmonized indexes of consumer prices available monthly (10/24/2006)

Real earnings, September 2006 (10/23/2006)
Injuries and illnesses rates down again in 2005 (10/20/2006)
CPI in September 2006 (10/19/2006)
PPI in September 2006 (10/18/2006)
Earnings of second-generation Americans (10/17/2006)

Import prices in September 2006 (10/16/2006)
Unemployment of second- and third-and-higher-generation Americans (10/13/2006)
Job openings rate in August 2006 (10/12/2006)
Unemployment rate in September 2006 (10/11/2006)
Changes in payroll employment by industry, September 2006 (10/10/2006)

Second-generation Americans, age, and the labor force (10/06/2006)
The 'sandwich generation' (10/05/2006)
Men's and women's work hours, 2005 (10/04/2006)
Women's earnings as a percentage of men's, 1979-2005 (10/03/2006)
Differences in earnings by age and sex in 2005 (10/02/2006)

September 2006

Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2005 (09/29/2006)
Occupations with the most job openings for college graduates, 2004-14 (09/28/2006)
International factory productivity gains in 2005 (09/27/2006)
Healthcare employment for workers without a bachelor's degree (09/26/2006)
Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2006 (09/25/2006)

Mass layoffs in August (09/22/2006)
Workers with at least ten years of employee tenure, 2006 (09/21/2006)
Producer prices in August 2006 (09/20/2006)
Real earnings in August 2006 (09/19/2006)
CPI in August 2006 (09/18/2006)

Import prices in August 2006 (09/15/2006)
Variation in worker earnings, June 2005 (09/14/2006)
Job openings by industry in July 2006 (09/13/2006)
Employee tenure by occupation, 2006 (09/12/2006)
Employee tenure, 2006 (09/11/2006)

Gross job gains and losses: fourth quarter 2005 (09/08/2006)
Productivity growth in the second quarter revised upward (09/07/2006)
Payrolls in August (09/06/2006)
Unemployment in August 2006 (09/05/2006)
Leave benefits in 2006 (09/01/2006)

August 2006

The labor market impact of Hurricane Katrina (08/31/2006)
Multifactor productivity, 1996-2005 (08/30/2006)
Youth unemployment, Summer 2006 (08/29/2006)

Summer 2006 labor force participation of youth (08/28/2006)
Retirement plans in 2006 (08/25/2006)
Mass layoffs in July (08/24/2006)
Productivity in trade and food services, 2005 (08/23/2006)
Displaced and reemployed workers by industry, January 2006 (08/22/2006)

Real earnings, July 2006 (08/21/2006)
Displaced workers, 2003-05: reason for job loss (08/18/2006)
CPI in July 2006 (08/17/2006)
PPI in July 2006 (08/16/2006)
Hurricanes and workplace fatalities, 2005 (08/15/2006)

Import prices in July 2006 (08/14/2006)
Fatal work injuries in 2005 (08/11/2006)
Hires and separations rates in June 2006 (08/10/2006)
Productivity growth in second quarter 2006 (08/09/2006)
Payroll employment by industry, July 2006 (08/08/2006)

Unemployment rates and demographics, July 2006 (08/07/2006)
Declines in prices received by domestic producers of cars and light trucks (08/04/2006)
Slower increase in food PPI last year (08/03/2006)
Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2005 (08/02/2006)
Decline in wages and salaries in constant dollars, June 2005-June 2006 (08/01/2006)

July 2006

Employment costs rise 0.8 percent from March to June (07/31/2006)
Working on the weekend (07/28/2006)
Most rapid growth and decline in employment by county, December 2004-December 2005 (07/27/2006)
Middle Atlantic division had highest earnings in June 2005 (07/26/2006)
Real earnings in June (07/25/2006)

Usual weekly earnings, second quarter 2006 (07/24/2006)
Mass layoffs by industry, June 2006 (07/21/2006)
Consumer prices in June 2006 (07/20/2006)
Producer prices in June 2006 (07/19/2006)
Export prices up in June (07/18/2006)

Import prices in June 2006 (07/17/2006)
Sharp drop in mining productivity (07/14/2006)
Productivity growth in information-sector industries, 2004 (07/13/2006)
Hires rates by region, May 2006 (07/12/2006)
Unemployment rates and demographic groups in June 2006 (07/11/2006)

Payroll employment in June 2006 (07/10/2006)
Service jobs most likely to pay minimum wage (07/07/2006)
Asian households and spending on food at home (07/06/2006)
Employment trends in hospitals (07/05/2006)
Workplace injuries and illnesses among nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (07/03/2006)

June 2006

Emergency management specialists (06/30/2006)
Working poor by occupation in 2004 (06/29/2006)

A new experimental consumer price index (06/28/2006)
Summer jobs: where teens work (06/27/2006)
Captioning and court reporting in the 21st century (06/26/2006)
Mass layoffs in May (06/23/2006)
Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2006 (06/22/2006)

Working poor and education in 2004 (06/21/2006)
Medical care inflation in 2005 (06/20/2006)
Rate of working poor up in 2004 (06/19/2006)
Real earnings in May 2006 (06/16/2006)
Consumer prices in May 2006 (06/15/2006)

Producer prices in May 2006 (06/14/2006)
Changes in prices for new and used vehicles (06/13/2006)
Import prices up again in May 2006 (06/12/2006)
Energy inflation in 2005 (06/09/2006)
Earnings of retail salespersons highest in metro areas in West (06/08/2006)

Hires and separations in April (06/07/2006)
Unemployment rate in May 2006 (06/06/2006)
Change in payroll employment, May 2006 (06/05/2006)
First-quarter productivity growth revised upward (06/02/2006)
Unemployment among Gulf War veterans (06/01/2006)

May 2006

Spending on apparel over the decades (05/31/2006)
Unemployment rates of veterans, 2005 (05/30/2006)

Spending on food: 1901 versus 2002-03 (05/26/2006)
Earnings of workers in occupations with the largest number of employees (05/25/2006)
Mass-layoff initial claims for unemployment insurance, April 2006 (05/24/2006)
Spending on necessities, 1901 and 2002-03 (05/23/2006)
Real earnings in April 2006 (05/22/2006)

Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2005 (05/19/2006)
CPI in April 2006 (05/18/2006)
PPI in April 2006 (05/17/2006)
Spending on food in 2004 (05/16/2006)
Import prices in April 2006 (05/15/2006)

Extended mass layoffs, first quarter 2006 (05/12/2006)
Foreign-born workers by region (05/11/2006)
Job openings in March 2006 (05/10/2006)
April 2006 payroll employment (05/09/2006)
Unemployment rate in April 2006 (05/08/2006)

Productivity in first quarter 2006 (05/05/2006)
Families and unemployment, 2005 (05/04/2006)
Productivity in largest manufacturing industries (05/03/2006)
Fewer families with children under 18 have employed parent (05/02/2006)
Employment costs up 0.6 percent from December to March (05/01/2006)

April 2006

Employment in married-couple families (04/28/2006)
Weekly earnings in first quarter 2006 by demographics (04/27/2006)
Foreign born and earnings in 2005 (04/26/2006)
Real earnings in March 2006 (04/25/2006)
Educational attainment of foreign-born labor force, 2005 (04/24/2006)

Mass-layoff initial claims for unemployment insurance by State, March 2006 (04/21/2006)
CPI in March 2006 (04/20/2006)
PPI in March 2006 (04/19/2006)
Counties with fastest pay growth, third quarter 2005 (04/18/2006)
Foreign born and unemployment, 2005 (04/17/2006)

Import prices down again in March 2006 (04/14/2006)
Counties with most rapid employment growth and decline, September 2004-September 2005 (04/13/2006)
Layoffs and discharges rate, February 2006 (04/12/2006)
Unemployment in March 2006 (04/11/2006)
Employment up again in March (04/10/2006)

Over half of job separations are quits (04/07/2006)
Occupational changes: then and now (04/06/2006)
Payroll employment, 2000-2005 (04/05/2006)
Duration of unemployment in 2005 (04/04/2006)
Unemployment in 2005 (04/03/2006)

March 2006

Productivity in the engineering services industry (03/31/2006)
Productivity in the architectural services industry (03/30/2006)
Recent high school graduates and the work force (03/29/2006)

Unemployment rate 32.9 percent among recent dropouts (03/28/2006)
College enrollment of 2005 high school grads (03/27/2006)
Multifactor productivity, 1995-2004 (03/24/2006)
Mass layoffs by industry, February 2006 (03/23/2006)
PPI in February 2006 (03/22/2006)

Shifting to one-stop shopping (03/21/2006)
Over-the-year changes in average weekly earnings, February 2006 (03/20/2006)
CPI in February 2006 (03/17/2006)
Import prices down in February 2006 (03/16/2006)
Annual hires, total separations, and quits rates, 2001-2005 (03/15/2006)

Unemployment in February (03/14/2006)
Payroll employment in February 2006 (03/13/2006)
Trends in retirement plan coverage (03/10/2006)
Duration of major work stoppages beginning in 2005 (03/09/2006)
Revision of fourth-quarter productivity growth (03/08/2006)

2004-2005 changes in State unemployment rates (03/07/2006)
States with highest unemployment rates in 2005 (03/06/2006)
Fewer workers idled by work stoppages in 2005 (03/03/2006)
Lowest State unemployment rate: Hawaii (03/02/2006)
Real earnings in January 2006 (03/01/2006)

February 2006

Long-term unemployment in recent recessions (02/28/2006)
Enlistment of youth in the Armed Forces (02/27/2006)
Mass layoffs in January (02/24/2006)
Consumer prices in January (02/23/2006)

Korea and Sweden record largest manufacturing productivity increases in 2004 (02/22/2006)
PPI in January 2006 (02/21/2006)
Import prices in January 2006 (02/17/2006)
Gross job gains and losses in the second quarter of 2005 (02/16/2006)
Reason for unemployment, 2005 (02/15/2006)

Absence rates and industry, 2005 (02/14/2006)
Extended mass layoff events, fourth quarter 2005 (02/13/2006)
Separations due to mass layoffs, 2005 (02/10/2006)
Unit labor costs in fourth quarter of 2005 (02/09/2006)
Job openings and labor turnover in 2005 (02/08/2006)

January 2006 payroll employment (02/07/2006)
Unemployment down in January (02/06/2006)
Productivity growth in 2005 (02/03/2006)
Compensation costs in State and local government (02/02/2006)
Compensation costs up 3.0 percent in private industry in 2005 (02/01/2006)

January 2006

Absence rates and occupation, 2005 (01/31/2006)
Health care plans and establishment size in 2005 (01/30/2006)
Mass layoffs in December (01/27/2006)
Mass layoffs in 2005 (01/26/2006)
Unionization rates by occupation in 2005 (01/25/2006)

Union membership by industry, 2005 (01/24/2006)
Union membership in 2005 (01/23/2006)
Real average weekly earnings, December 2004 – December 2005 (01/20/2006)
CPI up 3.4 percent in 2005 (01/19/2006)
Counties with fastest growth in employment, June 2004-June 2005 (01/18/2006)

PPI in December (01/17/2006)
Import prices in December 2005 (01/13/2006)
Counties with most rapid pay growth, second quarter 2005 (01/12/2006)
Hires rate in November 2005 (01/11/2006)
December unemployment rates of Hurricane Katrina evacuees (01/10/2006)

Payroll employment up by 2 million in 2005 (01/09/2006)
Multiple jobholding in 2004 (01/06/2006)
Top U.S. trading partners in 2004 (01/05/2006)
Occupational mobility and age (01/04/2006)
The labor force in 2014: race and Hispanic origin (01/03/2006)

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