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

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Chronological listing

October 2012

• High school math courses and college attendance in two generations (10/16/2012)
• Producer prices increase 2.1 percent in 12 months (10/15/2012)
• Import and export prices up again in September 2012 (10/12/2012)
• Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, August 2012 (10/11/2012)
• Payroll employment increases in September 2012 (10/09/2012)

• Unemployment rates in baseball playoff metro areas, August 2012 (10/05/2012)
• Payroll employment in metropolitan areas, August 2011–August 2012 (10/04/2012)
• International unemployment rates, July 2012 (10/03/2012)
• Occupational employment and wages in green goods and services (10/02/2012)
• Multifactor productivity trends in 2010 (10/01/2012)

September 2012

• Employment and wages up in large counties (09/28/2012)
• Consumer expenditures rise in 2011 (09/27/2012)
• Fatal work injuries decrease in construction, increase in transportation and warehousing in 2011 (09/26/2012)
• State employment and unemployment, August 2012 (09/25/2012)

• Mass layoffs in August 2012 (09/24/2012)
• Who has retirement benefits in private industry in 2012? (09/21/2012)
• Employee tenure in 2012 (09/20/2012)
• Employer costs for employee compensation $28.80 in June 2012 (09/19/2012)
• Real earnings in August 2012 (09/18/2012)

• Consumer prices up in August 2012 (09/17/2012)
• Producer Price Index in August 2012 (09/14/2012)
• Import and export prices up in August 2012 (09/13/2012)
• Job openings in July 2012 (09/12/2012)
• Unemployment and labor force participation rates down in August 2012 (09/11/2012)

• Payroll employment increases in August 2012 (09/10/2012)
• International labor force participation rates for women, 2011 (09/07/2012)
• Nonfarm business productivity, second quarter 2012 (09/06/2012)
• Racial and ethnic characteristics of the U.S. labor force, 2011 (09/05/2012)
• Access to paid leave, 2011 (09/04/2012)

August 2012

• Productivity in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2011 (08/31/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, July 2012 (08/30/2012)
• How do married parents use their time? (08/29/2012)

• Employment status of displaced workers (08/28/2012)
• Atlanta's air transportation industry, 1990–2010 (08/27/2012)
• Mass layoffs in July 2012 (08/24/2012)
• Fatal injuries among fishing workers, 2003–2009 (08/23/2012)
• Youth employment in summer 2012 (08/22/2012)

• State nonfarm payroll employment, July 2012 (08/21/2012)
• State unemployment rates, July 2012 (08/20/2012)
• Real earnings in July 2012 (08/17/2012)
• Consumer prices increase 1.4 percent from July 2011 to July 2012 (08/16/2012)
• Producer Price Index in July 2012 (08/15/2012)

• International employment-population ratios, 2011 (08/14/2012)
• Import and export prices, July 2012 (08/13/2012)
• Extended mass layoffs, second quarter 2012 (08/10/2012)
• Productivity, output, and hours in the second quarter of 2012 (08/09/2012)
• Job hires and separations, June 2012 (08/08/2012)

• Labor market attachment of baby boomers by educational attainment (08/07/2012)
• Employment and unemployment in July 2012 (08/06/2012)
• Gross job gains and losses in the fourth quarter of 2011 (08/03/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, June 2012 (08/02/2012)
• Compensation costs up in June (08/01/2012)

July 2012

• Number of jobs held and job duration for baby boomers, 1978–2010 (07/31/2012)

• Occupations with the highest job gains and losses (07/30/2012)
• International unemployment rates by age group, 2011 (07/27/2012)
• Employee benefits in private industry and state and local government, March 2012 (07/26/2012)
• State unemployment rates little changed in June (07/25/2012)
• Changes in nonfarm payroll by state, June 2012 (07/24/2012)

• Mass layoffs in June 2012 (07/23/2012)
• Weekly earnings of full-time workers by age and sex, second quarter 2012 (07/20/2012)
• Real earnings up in June 2012 (07/19/2012)
• Consumer prices unchanged in June 2012 (07/18/2012)
• Employee medical, retirement, and leave benefits, March 2012 (07/17/2012)

• Producer Price Index in June 2012 (07/16/2012)
• Import prices decrease in June 2012 (07/13/2012)
• Time use of youths of immigrant and native-born parents, 2003–2010 (07/12/2012)
• Job openings little changed in May 2012 (07/11/2012)
• Unemployment in June 2012 (07/10/2012)

• Payroll employment continued to edge up in June 2012 (07/09/2012)
• Sector Employment Shifts around the World (07/06/2012)
• Multifactor productivity in manufacturing industries, 2010 (07/05/2012)
• Green technologies and practices, August 2011 (07/03/2012)
• Time spent working, 2011 (07/02/2012)

June 2012

• Employment up, wages down, in large counties (06/29/2012)

• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, May 2012 (06/28/2012)
• Employer-provided health insurance in state and local government (06/27/2012)
• Eldercare in 2011 (06/26/2012)
• Unemployment among persons with a disability, 2011 (06/25/2012)
• Employment and enrollment of young male veterans in the 2007–2009 recession (06/22/2012)

• Mass layoffs in May 2012 (06/21/2012)
• Job openings, April 2012 (06/20/2012)
• State unemployment rates, May 2012 (06/19/2012)
• Real earnings in May 2012 (06/18/2012)
• Consumer prices, May 2011 to May 2012 (06/15/2012)

• Producer prices fall in May 2012 (06/14/2012)
• Import and export prices, May 2012 (06/13/2012)
• Employment of persons with a disability, 2011 (06/12/2012)
• International unemployment rates, March 2012 (06/11/2012)
• Employer costs for legally required benefits in March 2012 (06/08/2012)

• First quarter 2012 nonfarm business sector productivity (06/07/2012)
• Education and occupations of the foreign born in 2011 (06/06/2012)
• Productivity in selected service-providing and mining industries, 2010 (06/05/2012)
• The employment situation in May 2012 (06/04/2012)
• Young adult employment during the recent recession (06/01/2012)

May 2012

• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, April 2012 (05/31/2012)
• International air passenger fares (05/30/2012)

• Employment status of the foreign born and native born by age, 2011 (05/29/2012)
• Multifactor productivity in private nonfarm business (05/25/2012)
• Regional Consumer Price Indexes, April 2012 (05/24/2012)
• State employment and unemployment, April 2012 (05/21/2012)
• Mass layoffs in April 2012 (05/23/2012)

• Commodity prices and the Consumer Price Index (05/22/2012)
• Extended mass layoff events in manufacturing, first quarter 2012 (05/18/2012)
• Real earnings in April 2012 (05/17/2012)
• Consumer prices increase 2.3 percent from April 2011 to April 2012 (05/16/2012)
• Education and training across occupation groups (05/15/2012)

• Producer prices in April 2012 (05/14/2012)
• U.S. import and export price indexes in April 2012 (05/11/2012)
• Employed Asians by occupation, 2008–2010 (05/10/2012)
• Job openings levels by industry, March 2012 (05/09/2012)
• Unemployment among families, 2011 (05/08/2012)

• The employment situation in April 2012 (05/07/2012)
• Nonfarm business labor productivity, first quarter 2012 (05/04/2012)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, March 2012 (05/03/2012)
• Gross job gains and losses, third quarter 2011 (05/02/2012)
• Women as a percent of total employed in selected occupations, 2011 (05/01/2012)

April 2012

• Compensation costs for private industry workers: March 2011–March 2012 (04/30/2012)

• Employment status of parents, 2011 (04/27/2012)
• Average size of establishments: a look at industries (04/26/2012)
• Mass layoffs in March 2012 (04/25/2012)
• Length of job search for the unemployed (04/24/2012)
• State unemployment rates, March 2012 (04/23/2012)

• Labor force participation among students and nonstudents, October 2011 (04/20/2012)
• Median weekly earnings by race, ethnicity, and occupation, first quarter 2012 (04/19/2012)
• Unemployment rates lower from February 2011 to 2012 (04/18/2012)
• Real earnings in March 2012 (04/17/2012)
• CPI up 2.7 percent from March 2011 to March 2012 (04/16/2012)

• PPI for output of trade industries up in March (04/13/2012)
• Import and export prices in March 2012 (04/12/2012)
• Job openings rate 2.6 percent in February (04/11/2012)
• Employment trends from two surveys (04/10/2012)
• The employment situation in March 2012 (04/09/2012)

• Employer-provided life insurance benefits, 2011 (04/06/2012)
• "Working poor" rate 7.2 percent in 2010 (04/05/2012)
• Private business multifactor productivity up in 2010 (04/04/2012)
• Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2010 (04/03/2012)
• Unemployment by geographic region and division, February 2012 (04/02/2012)

March 2012

• County employment, September 2011 (03/30/2012)
• Occupational Employment and Wages — May 2011 (03/29/2012)

• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, January 2012 (03/28/2012)
• Employment in green goods and services, 2010 (03/27/2012)
• Mass layoffs in February 2012 (03/26/2012)
• Employment Situation of Veterans — 2011 (03/23/2012)
• Employer costs for legally required benefits in December 2011 (03/22/2012)

• State employment: January 2011 – January 2012 (03/21/2012)
• Real earnings in February (03/20/2012)
• CPI up 2.9 percent from February 2011 to February 2012 (03/19/2012)
• Producer prices in February 2012 (03/16/2012)
• Import and export prices in February 2012 (03/15/2012)

• Annual hires, separations, quits, layoffs and discharges, 2011 (03/14/2012)
• State unemployment rates, 2011 (03/13/2012)
• Payroll employment increases by 227,000 in February 2012 (03/12/2012)
• Workplace safety for security guards (03/09/2012)
• Unit labor costs and real hourly compensation, 2011 (03/08/2012)

• Employer-provided sick leave benefits, March 2009 (03/07/2012)
• Characteristics of minimum wage workers in 2011 (03/06/2012)
• Output projections for major industries, 2010–2020 (03/05/2012)
• Consumer Price Index for the elderly (03/02/2012)
• State employment-population ratios in 2011 (03/01/2012)

February 2012

• Employer-provided health care benefits (02/29/2012)
• Employment projections by occupational group, 2010–2020 (02/28/2012)
• Work experience during 2010 (02/27/2012)
• Mass layoffs in January 2012 (02/24/2012)
• Volunteer rate rises in 2011 (02/23/2012)

• Real earnings in January 2012 (02/22/2012)
• Consumer prices increase 2.9 percent in 12 months (02/21/2012)
• Producer prices in January 2012 (02/17/2012)
• Labor Force Projections to 2020 (02/16/2012)
• Import and export prices, January 2012 (02/15/2012)

• Gross job gains and job losses in the second quarter of 2011 (02/14/2012)
• Extended mass layoff events, 2011 (02/13/2012)
• Young adults at school and work (02/10/2012)
• Major work stoppages in 2011 (02/09/2012)
• Job openings in December (02/08/2012)

• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, December 2011 (02/07/2012)
• Employment and unemployment in January 2012 (02/06/2012)
• Productivity, output, and hours worked, fourth quarter 2011 (02/03/2012)
• Employment projections for major industries, 2010–20 (02/02/2012)
• Employment costs in private industry and state and local government, December 2011 (02/01/2012)

January 2012

• Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States, 2011 (01/31/2012)
• Union membership, 2011 (01/30/2012)
• Mass layoff events and initial claims decline in 2011 (01/27/2012)
• Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2011 (01/26/2012)
• State employment and unemployment, December 2011 (01/25/2012)

• Medical care benefits, March 2011 (01/24/2012)
• Real earnings in December 2011 (01/23/2012)
• CPI increases 3.0 percent in 2011 (01/20/2012)
• Producer prices in December 2011 (01/19/2012)
• Top searches on BLS website in 2011 (01/18/2012)

• Import and export prices in 2011 (01/17/2012)
• Firm size and share of employment change, 1992–2009 (01/13/2012)
• Job openings by industry, November 2011 (01/12/2012)
• County wages up in second quarter 2011 (01/11/2012)
• Women's earnings as a percent of men's in 2010 (01/10/2012)

• Unemployment rate falls to 8.5 percent in December 2011 (01/09/2012)
• Payroll employment increases by 200,000 in December 2011 (01/06/2012)
• Metro area employment and unemployment, November 2011 (01/05/2012)
• Homicides in retail trade, 2003–2008 (01/04/2012)
• Job creation among small and large businesses (01/03/2012)