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December 2007

Self-employment in 2016 (12/31/2007)
Occupations losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (12/28/2007)
Duration of unemployment, 2006 (12/27/2007)
Layoffs in November (12/26/2007)

Real average weekly earnings, November 2007 (12/21/2007)
Work experience, 2006 (12/20/2007)
Industries with the most new jobs, 2006-16 (12/19/2007)
Spending on cell phone services now almost the same as residential phone services spending (12/18/2007)
Consumer prices in November 2007 (12/17/2007)

PPI in November 2007 (12/14/2007)
Import prices in November (12/13/2007)
Job openings by industry, October 2007 (12/12/2007)
Payroll employment in November 2007 (12/11/2007)
Unemployment rate in November 2007 (12/10/2007)

Occupations with the largest projected job growth, 2006-16 (12/07/2007)
Productivity growth in third quarter revised upward (12/06/2007)
Labor force projected at 164.2 million by 2016 (12/05/2007)
Differences in women's earnings by educational level, 2006 (12/04/2007)
Labor force participation rate of mothers, 1975-2006 (12/03/2007)

November 2007

Wives who earn more than their husbands, 1987-2005 (11/30/2007)
Creative arts employment in New York and Los Angeles (11/29/2007)
Auto parts industry employment trends in the Midwest, 1992-2006 (11/28/2007)
Distribution of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses, 2006 (11/27/2007)
Value of quality changes for 2008 passenger cars and light trucks (11/26/2007)

Layoffs in October 2007 (11/23/2007)
Real earnings in October (11/21/2007)
Job losses and gains by industry, first quarter of 2007 (11/20/2007)
Extended mass layoffs in the third quarter of 2007 (11/19/2007)
CPI in October 2007 (11/16/2007)

PPI in October 2007 (11/15/2007)
Export prices in October 2007 (11/14/2007)
Import prices in October 2007 (11/13/2007)
Injuries and illness resulting in days away from work by age in 2006 (11/09/2007)
Productivity in third quarter 2007 (11/08/2007)

Quits rates in September 2006 and September 2007 (11/07/2007)
Unemployment in October 2007 (11/06/2007)
October 2007 payroll employment (11/05/2007)
Compensation costs in State and local government, September 2007 (11/02/2007)
Employment costs in private industry, September 2007 (11/01/2007)

October 2007

Employment of women, by industry (10/31/2007)
Multiple jobholding in 2006 (10/30/2007)

Consumer expenditures in 2006 (10/29/2007)
Occupational injuries and illnesses and establishment size (10/26/2007)
Employment and wages by occupation for nonmetropolitan areas (10/25/2007)
Layoffs by region in September 2007 (10/24/2007)
Employment growth and decline by county, March 2006-2007 (10/23/2007)

Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2007 (10/22/2007)
Usual weekly earnings by educational attainment and sex (10/19/2007)
Consumer prices in September 2007 (10/18/2007)
Decline in injuries and illnesses rates continued in 2006 (10/17/2007)
Export prices in September 2007 (10/16/2007)

Producer prices in September 2007 (10/15/2007)
Import prices up in September 2007 (10/12/2007)
Job openings rate in August 2007 (10/11/2007)
Payrolls in September 2007 (10/10/2007)
Unemployment in September 2007 (10/09/2007)

Earnings in air travel jobs (10/05/2007)
Employment in air travel jobs (10/04/2007)
Flexible work and part-time jobs (10/03/2007)
Unit labor costs in manufacturing dropped most in 2006 in Japan (10/02/2007)
Health educators (10/01/2007)

September 2007

International factory productivity gains in 2006 (09/28/2007)
Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2006 (09/27/2007)
Working as a cobbler (09/26/2007)
Private industry compensation $25.93 per hour on average in June 2007 (09/25/2007)

Layoffs in August 2007 (09/24/2007)
Real earnings in August (09/21/2007)
CPI in August 2007 (09/20/2007)
PPI in August 2007 (09/19/2007)
Export prices up in August 2007 (09/18/2007)

Import prices down in August 2007 (09/17/2007)
Security guard employment after 2001 (09/14/2007)
Railroad-related work fatalities (09/13/2007)
Hires and separations in July 2007 (09/12/2007)
Unemployment rate in August 2007 (09/11/2007)

Payroll employment in August 2007 (09/10/2007)
Second-quarter productivity growth revised upward (09/07/2007)
Fatal on-the-job highway incidents in 2006 (09/06/2007)
Prices received by domestic producers of cars and light trucks, 2006 (09/05/2007)
Food PPI in 2006 (09/04/2007)

August 2007

Gross job gains and losses by State (08/31/2007)
Leave benefits in 2007 (08/30/2007)
Productivity growth in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2006 (08/29/2007)

Unemployment among youth, Summer 2007 (08/28/2007)
Summer 2007 labor force participation of youth (08/27/2007)
Layoffs by region in July 2007 (08/24/2007)
Health care plans in 2007 (08/23/2007)
Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries (08/22/2007)

Average weekly earnings, July 2007 (08/21/2007)
Age and fatal work injuries in 2006 (08/20/2007)
Job losses and gains in the fourth quarter of 2006 (08/17/2007)
CPI in July 2007 (08/16/2007)
PPI in July 2007 (08/15/2007)

Workplace homicides declined in 2006 (08/14/2007)
Import prices in July 2007 (08/13/2007)
Fatal work injuries in 2006 (08/10/2007)
Job openings by industry, June 2007 (08/09/2007)
Productivity in second quarter 2007 (08/08/2007)

Unemployment rates by demographics, July 2007 (08/07/2007)
Payroll employment in July (08/06/2007)
Medical care inflation in 2006 (08/03/2007)
Wages and salaries in constant dollars increase from June 2006 to June 2007 (08/02/2007)
Employment costs in private industry, June 2007 (08/01/2007)

July 2007

Apparel prices up in 2006 (07/31/2007)

Energy prices in 2006 (07/30/2007)
Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2006 (07/27/2007)
Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, December 2005-2006 (07/26/2007)
Employment concentration in automotive industries (07/25/2007)
Real earnings in June (07/24/2007)

Layoffs in June 2007 (07/23/2007)
Weekly earnings in second quarter 2007 by demographics (07/20/2007)
CPI in June 2007 (07/19/2007)
Producer prices in June 2007 (07/18/2007)
Export prices in June 2007 (07/17/2007)

Import prices in June 2007 (07/16/2007)
Working at home in 2006 (07/13/2007)
Employment in managing offices, June 2006 (07/12/2007)
Job openings in May 2007 (07/11/2007)
June 2007 payroll employment (07/10/2007)

Unemployment rate in June 2007 (07/09/2007)
Health benefit costs by region (07/06/2007)
Variation in worker earnings by establishment size and industry, June 2006 (07/05/2007)
Household activities in 2006 (07/03/2007)
Average hours of work of men and women, 2006 (07/02/2007)

June 2007

The average day, 2006 (06/29/2007)

"STEM" occupations and job growth (06/28/2007)
Variation in worker earnings by occupation, June 2006 (06/27/2007)
Small and large firms and job growth (06/26/2007)
Mass layoff events in May 2007 (06/25/2007)
Health benefit costs and establishment size, March 2007 (06/22/2007)

Industry employment trends in 2006 (06/21/2007)
Recovery after Hurricane Katrina (06/20/2007)
Real earnings in May (06/19/2007)
CPI in May 2007 (06/18/2007)
PPI in May 2007 (06/15/2007)

New export price index for education (06/14/2007)
Job openings in April 2007 (06/13/2007)
Change in employment by major occupation and sex, 2005-06 (06/12/2007)
Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2005 (06/11/2007)
Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2005 (06/08/2007)

Downward revision of first-quarter productivity growth (06/07/2007)
Time use of married women with young children (06/06/2007)
Unemployment rates by demographics, May 2007 (06/05/2007)
Payroll employment by industry, May 2007 (06/04/2007)
College students and time use, 2003-2005 (06/01/2007)

May 2007

Leisure time and older Americans (05/31/2007)
Workplace injuries and illnesses among mechanics (05/30/2007)

Employment in office and administrative support occupations, 2006 (05/29/2007)
Multifactor productivity, 1996-2006 (05/25/2007)
Mass layoffs in April 2007 (05/24/2007)
Real earnings in April (05/23/2007)
Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2006 (05/22/2007)

Gross job gains and losses: third quarter 2006 (05/21/2007)
Highest paid registered nurses are in California (05/18/2007)
Extended mass layoffs in the first quarter of 2007 (05/17/2007)
CPI in April 2007 (05/16/2007)
Families and unemployment, 2006 (05/15/2007)

Producer prices in April 2007 (05/14/2007)
Import prices in April (05/11/2007)
Married-couple families and employment, 2006 (05/10/2007)
Job openings by industry in March (05/09/2007)
April 2007 payroll employment (05/08/2007)

Unemployment in April 2007 (05/07/2007)
Productivity in first quarter 2007 (05/04/2007)
Foreign-born workers by region, 2006 (05/03/2007)
Recent high school graduates and labor force participation (05/02/2007)
Foreign-born workers by occupation, 2006 (05/01/2007)

April 2007

Employment costs in private industry, March 2007 (04/30/2007)

2006 high school grads and college enrollment (04/27/2007)
Foreign-born workers and unemployment, 2006 (04/26/2007)
Married mothers of infants and labor force participation (04/25/2007)
Real earnings, March 2007 (04/24/2007)
Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2007 (04/23/2007)

Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2005 (04/20/2007)
Weekly earnings in the first quarter of 2007 (04/19/2007)
CPI in March (04/18/2007)
Wage growth by county, third quarter 2005-2006 (04/17/2007)
PPI in March 2007 (04/16/2007)

Import prices in March 2007 (04/13/2007)
Employment growth and decline by county, September 2005-2006 (04/12/2007)
Quits as a percentage of separations (04/11/2007)
March 2007 payroll employment (04/10/2007)
Unemployment rate in March 2007 (04/09/2007)

Employer costs for legally required benefits, December 2006 (04/06/2007)
Health savings accounts (04/05/2007)
Flexible benefits and reimbursement accounts (04/04/2007)
Educational attainment at age 19 (04/03/2007)
Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2006 (04/02/2007)

March 2007

Private industry compensation $25.67 per hour on average in December 2006 (03/30/2007)
Transportation expenditures in 2005 (03/29/2007)

Employment of 18- and 19-year-olds not enrolled in school (03/28/2007)
Housing expenditures in 2005 (03/27/2007)
Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2005 (03/26/2007)
Mass layoffs up in February (03/23/2007)
2005-06 changes in State unemployment rates (03/22/2007)

Food expenditures in 2005 (03/21/2007)
Real average weekly earnings, February 2007 (03/20/2007)
CPI in February (03/19/2007)
Producer prices in February 2007 (03/16/2007)
Import prices in February 2007 (03/15/2007)

Job openings rates by industry in January 2007 (03/14/2007)
Unemployment rate in February 2007 (03/13/2007)
Payroll employment, February 2007 (03/12/2007)
Unit labor costs in fourth quarter of 2006 (03/09/2007)
Days of idleness due to major work stoppages up in 2006 (03/08/2007)

Fourth-quarter productivity growth revised downward (03/07/2007)
States with highest unemployment rates in 2006 (03/06/2007)
Lowest State unemployment rates in 2006 (03/05/2007)
Working as a floral designer (03/02/2007)
Duration of major work stoppages beginning in 2006 (03/01/2007)

February 2007

Fewer workers idled by work stoppages in 2006 (02/28/2007)
Korea, Taiwan had biggest factory productivity gains in 2005 (02/27/2007)
Layoffs in January 2007 (02/26/2007)
Real earnings in January (02/23/2007)

CPI in January (02/22/2007)
Training animals for a living (02/21/2007)
PPI in January 2007 (02/20/2007)
Import prices in January 2007 (02/16/2007)
Job growth by firm size: second quarter 2006 (02/15/2007)

Extended mass layoffs, 2006 (02/14/2007)
Length of unemployment, 2005 (02/13/2007)
Work experience of men and women in 2005 (02/12/2007)
Union membership by industry, 2006 (02/09/2007)
Productivity growth in 2006 (02/08/2007)

Job openings and labor turnover in 2006 (02/07/2007)
Unemployment rates by demographics, January 2007 (02/06/2007)
Payroll employment in January 2007 (02/05/2007)
Compensation costs in State and local government, September-December 2006 (02/02/2007)
Compensation costs in private industry up 3.2 percent in 2006 (02/01/2007)

January 2007

Fairfax County and growth of professional and business services jobs in Washington, DC area (01/31/2007)
Union membership by State, 2006 (01/30/2007)
Earnings and education in the fourth quarter of 2006 (01/29/2007)
Union membership in 2006 (01/26/2007)
Layoffs in December 2006 (01/25/2007)

States with lowest unemployment rates in December 2006 (01/24/2007)
Volunteer rates in 2006 (01/23/2007)
Real average weekly earnings, December 2005-December 2006 (01/22/2007)
CPI up 2.5 percent in 2006 (01/19/2007)
Producer prices in December 2006 (01/18/2007)

Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, June 2005-2006 (01/17/2007)
Import prices in 2006 (01/16/2007)
Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2006 (01/12/2007)
How volunteers get their start (01/11/2007)
Changes in men's and women's labor force participation rates (01/10/2007)

Unemployment and labor force participation at the end of 2006 (01/09/2007)
Payroll employment up by 1.8 million in 2006 (01/08/2007)
Labor costs in China's manufacturing sector (01/05/2007)
Labor force growth: past, present, and future (01/04/2007)
Telemarketing centers in the U.S. (01/03/2007)

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