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

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk
—Chronological archives: 2004

December 2004

• Industries with fastest productivity growth (12/30/2004)

• Experiencing unemployment in 2003 (12/29/2004)
• Job openings and the Help-Wanted Index (12/28/2004)
• Unemployment insurance claims due to mass layoffs in November (12/27/2004)
• Work experience in 2003 (12/23/2004)
• Organizations and volunteers, 2004 (12/22/2004)

• Real earnings fall in November 2004 (12/21/2004)
• CPI in November (12/20/2004)
• Volunteer rates in 2004 (12/17/2004)
• Employer costs for paid leave (12/16/2004)
• Occupational injuries and illnesses by industry, 2003 (12/15/2004)

• Multiple-fatality rate highest in government (12/14/2004)
• PPI increases in November 2004 (12/13/2004)
• Import prices in November 2004 (12/10/2004)
• Job openings by industry, October 2004 (12/09/2004)
• Little revision to third-quarter productivity growth (12/08/2004)

• Change in payroll employment in November 2004 (12/07/2004)
• Unemployment in November 2004 (12/06/2004)
• Lost-worktime injuries and illnesses by day of week, 2002 (12/03/2004)
• Educational attainment of foreign-born workers, 2003 (12/02/2004)
• Consumer expenditures in 2003 (12/01/2004)

November 2004

• Quality changes in 2005 model vehicles (11/30/2004)
• Differences in earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic origin (11/29/2004)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance by region, October 2004 (11/26/2004)
• Work-related multiple-fatality incidents, 1995-99 (11/24/2004)

• Hourly compensation in U.S. and foreign factories, 2003 (11/23/2004)
• Real earnings in October 2004 (11/19/2004)
• CPI up 0.6 percent in October (11/18/2004)
• PPI up sharply in October 2004 (11/17/2004)
• Government employment and the 2001 recession (11/16/2004)

• Highest-paying jobs in November 2003 (11/15/2004)
• Import prices up again in October 2004 (11/12/2004)
• Hires rate in September 2004 (11/10/2004)
• Unemployment rate in October 2004 (11/09/2004)
• October 2004 payroll employment (11/08/2004)

• Productivity in third quarter 2004 (11/05/2004)
• Part-time workers: who they are and how much they earn (11/04/2004)
• Poverty rate of families with one member in the labor force (11/03/2004)
• Prices of imported capital goods decline again in 2003 (11/02/2004)
• Employment costs in private industry, September 2004 (11/01/2004)

October 2004

• Earnings and educational level in 2003 (10/29/2004)
• Fatal work injuries from accidental gunshot wounds (10/28/2004)
• Counties with fastest job growth, March 2003-March 2004 (10/27/2004)
• Occupation and the working poor in 2002 (10/26/2004)
• Women's earnings 80 percent of men's in 2003 (10/25/2004)

• Mass layoffs in September (10/22/2004)
• Occupation and earnings: third quarter of 2004 (10/21/2004)
• CPI advances 0.2 percent in September (10/20/2004)
• Shrinking employment in the information sector by State, March 2003-04 (10/19/2004)
• Producer prices in September 2004 (10/18/2004)

• Import prices in September 2004 (10/15/2004)
• Job openings rate unchanged in August 2004 (10/14/2004)
• Unemployment in September 2004 (10/13/2004)
• Payroll employment in September 2004 (10/12/2004)
• Fatal work injuries by occupation, 2003 (10/08/2004)

• Rate of working poor in 2002 (10/07/2004)
• Fatal on-the-job injuries by age in 2003 (10/06/2004)
• Manufacturing unit labor costs lower in 2003 in Taiwan (10/05/2004)
• Increases in prescription-drug copayments, 1993-2000 (10/04/2004)
• Korea had largest factory productivity gain in 2003 (10/01/2004)

September 2004

• Fatal occupational injuries by industry, 2003 (09/30/2004)

• Productivity in the video tape and disc rental industry (09/29/2004)
• The recent decline in medical and retirement plan coverage (09/28/2004)
• Productivity in retail trade, 2003 (09/27/2004)
• Layoffs in August 2004 (09/24/2004)
• Fatal work injuries in 2003 (09/23/2004)

• Employees with 10 years or more of tenure with the same employer (09/22/2004)
• Cost-saving incentives in prescription-drug coverage (09/21/2004)
• Real average weekly earnings in August 2004 (09/20/2004)
• CPI up 0.1 percent in August (09/17/2004)
• Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2004 (09/16/2004)

• First results from survey of time use (09/15/2004)
• Productivity growth in travel agencies (09/14/2004)
• PPI in August 2004 (09/13/2004)
• Import prices climb in August 2004 (09/10/2004)
• Hires rate down in July 2004 (09/09/2004)

• Change in payroll employment, August 2004 (09/08/2004)
• Unemployment rate in August 2004 (09/07/2004)
• Productivity growth in second quarter revised downward (09/03/2004)
• Education and number of jobs held from ages 18-38 (09/02/2004)
• Layoff events in July 2004 (09/01/2004)

August 2004

• Earnings growth among younger baby boomers (08/31/2004)
• Younger boomers: 10.2 jobs from ages 18-38 (08/30/2004)

• Extended mass layoffs down in second quarter of 2004 (08/27/2004)
• Employment duration of younger baby boomers (08/26/2004)
• Unemployment among youth this summer (08/25/2004)
• Self-employment rates, 1948-2003 (08/24/2004)
• Self-employment rates by industry, 2003 (08/23/2004)

• Real earnings up in July 2004 (08/20/2004)
• Youth labor force participation in Summer 2004 (08/19/2004)
• CPI down slightly in July (08/18/2004)
• Fatalities among professional athletes (08/17/2004)
• PPI in July (08/16/2004)

• Import prices rise in July (08/13/2004)
• June job openings rates (08/12/2004)
• Productivity growth in second quarter 2004 (08/11/2004)
• Unemployment in July 2004 (08/10/2004)
• Manufacturing employment in July (08/09/2004)

• Displaced workers' earnings at new jobs (08/06/2004)
• Disabled veterans and the labor force (08/05/2004)
• Gross job gains and losses in the fourth quarter, 2003 (08/04/2004)
• Displaced workers: reason for job loss (08/03/2004)
• Reemployment of displaced workers by age, January 2004 (08/02/2004)

July 2004

• Employment costs in private industry, June 2004 (07/30/2004)

• Unemployment rates of veterans (07/29/2004)
• Occupational employment of veterans (07/28/2004)
• Counties with most rapid growth in employment, December 2002-December 2003 (07/27/2004)
• School enrollment and labor force participation (07/26/2004)
• Unemployment insurance claimants by region (07/23/2004)

• Unemployment rates by age and the baby boom (07/22/2004)
• Educational attainment and median earnings (07/21/2004)
• Real wages by industry, June 2003 - June 2004 (07/20/2004)
• CPI in June (07/19/2004)
• PPI dips in June (07/16/2004)

• Import prices down in June (07/15/2004)
• Displacement rates and occupations (07/14/2004)
• Displacement rates by industry (07/13/2004)
• Displacement rates and demographics, 1999-2000 (07/12/2004)
• Counties with fastest growing pay, fourth quarter 2003 (07/09/2004)

• Hires exceed separations again (07/08/2004)
• Unemployment rate unchanged in June (07/07/2004)
• Payroll employment in June 2004 (07/06/2004)
• Compensation by occupational group in March 2004 (07/02/2004)
• 9/11 and the New York City economy (07/01/2004)

June 2004

• Foreign-born workers and on-the-job fatalities by industry (06/30/2004)

• Access to disability insurance benefits in March 2003 (06/29/2004)
• Compensation cost by establishment size (06/28/2004)
• Compensation in private industry, March 2004 (06/25/2004)
• Mass layoffs lower in May 2004 (06/24/2004)
• Access to life insurance in March 2003 (06/23/2004)

• Access to retirement benefits in March 2003 (06/22/2004)
• Real earnings drop in May 2004 (06/21/2004)
• PPI in May (06/18/2004)
• Productivity rises in most information-sector industries (06/17/2004)
• CPI up 0.6 percent in May (06/16/2004)

• Layoffs and relocations (06/15/2004)
• Import prices in May (06/14/2004)
• Hires rate in April 2004 (06/10/2004)
• Factory productivity in the first quarter (06/09/2004)
• Unemployment rate in May 2004 (06/08/2004)

• Manufacturing employment up in May (06/07/2004)
• Upward revision of productivity growth in first quarter (06/04/2004)
• Paid vacation in private industry (06/03/2004)
• Fewer separated in mass layoffs in most regions (06/02/2004)
• Calling cost less in 2003 (06/01/2004)

May 2004

• Food inflation up in 2003 (05/28/2004)
• Mass layoffs in April 2004 (05/27/2004)
• Another big drop in consumer durables prices (05/26/2004)
• Fewer information technology layoffs in first quarter (05/25/2004)
• Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2003 (05/24/2004)

• Shelter inflation in 2003 (05/21/2004)
• Medical care inflation slowed last year (05/20/2004)
• Extended mass layoffs decline in first quarter of 2004 (05/19/2004)
• Real earnings in April 2004 (05/18/2004)
• CPI in April (05/17/2004)

• Producer prices advance in April (05/14/2004)
• Import prices in April (05/13/2004)
• Hiring in March 2004 (05/12/2004)
• Payroll employment in April (05/11/2004)
• Unemployment in April 2004 (05/10/2004)

• Productivity growth in first quarter (05/07/2004)
• Lowest paying occupations in May 2003 (05/06/2004)
• Highest paying occupations in May 2003 (05/05/2004)
• 2003 high school graduates and college enrollment (05/04/2004)
• State and local government compensation costs up 3.3 percent in past 12 months (05/03/2004)

April 2004

• Compensation costs up 3.9 percent in private industry over the year (04/30/2004)
• Self-employed women: 1976-2003 (04/29/2004)

• Employee contributions for medical insurance premiums (04/28/2004)
• Women work more hours per week than in the past (04/27/2004)
• Mass layoffs in March 2004 (04/26/2004)
• PPI in March (04/23/2004)
• Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2003 (04/22/2004)

• Families and unemployment, 2003 (04/21/2004)
• Earnings and education in the first quarter of 2004 (04/20/2004)
• Real earnings in March (04/19/2004)
• Job openings in February 2004 (04/16/2004)
• Consumer prices in March (04/15/2004)

• Government employment declined in 2003 (04/14/2004)
• Education levels and unemployment at end of 2003 (04/13/2004)
• Occupational fatalities: self-employed workers and wage and salary workers (04/12/2004)
• Increases in men's and women's earnings in 2003 (04/09/2004)
• Export prices rise in March (04/08/2004)

• Counties with fastest growing employment, September 2003 (04/07/2004)
• Manufacturing employment in March (04/06/2004)
• Unemployment rate 5.7 percent in March (04/05/2004)
• PPI in February (04/02/2004)
• Manufacturing unit labor costs fell in 2002 in U.S., Canada, Taiwan (04/01/2004)

March 2004

• Occupations with most lost-time injuries and illnesses (03/31/2004)
• Repetitive motion results in longest work absences (03/30/2004)
• U.S. had largest manufacturing productivity increase in 2002 (03/29/2004)

• Events causing occupational injuries (03/26/2004)
• Mass layoffs down in February 2004 (03/25/2004)
• Fastest growing industries (03/24/2004)
• Workers idled by work stoppages in 2003 (03/23/2004)
• Number of major work stoppages in 2003 (03/22/2004)

• PPI rises in January (03/19/2004)
• Consumer prices in February (03/18/2004)
• Projected employment in high-paying occupations requiring a bachelor's or graduate degree (03/17/2004)
• Spending on food in 2002 (03/16/2004)
• Projected employment in high-paying occupations requiring less than a bachelor's degree (03/15/2004)

• Import prices in February (03/12/2004)
• Changes in unemployment rates by region in January (03/11/2004)
• Employment projections for the goods-producing sector, 2002-12 (03/10/2004)
• Payroll employment in February (03/09/2004)
• Unemployment rate unchanged in February (03/08/2004)

• Productivity growth in 2003 revised upward (03/05/2004)
• Employment growth in the service-providing sector, 2002-12 (03/04/2004)
• South Dakota had lowest unemployment rate again in 2003 (03/03/2004)
• Compensation of State and local government employees at end of 2003 (03/02/2004)
• Highest unemployment rate in 2003: Oregon (03/01/2004)

February 2004

• Private industry compensation averages $22.92 per hour in December (02/27/2004)
• Mass layoffs up in January 2004 (02/26/2004)
• Occupations with the largest job decline, 2002-12 (02/25/2004)
• Real earnings in January (02/24/2004)

• Consumer prices in January (02/23/2004)
• Age and labor force projections: 2002-12 (02/20/2004)
• Work experience of teenagers by race, Hispanic origin, and age (02/19/2004)
• Extended mass layoffs in 2003 (02/18/2004)
• Import prices in January (02/17/2004)

• Extended mass layoffs lower in fourth quarter (02/13/2004)
• Fastest growing occupations through 2012 (02/12/2004)
• A dip in manufacturing multifactor productivity (02/11/2004)
• Payroll employment up in January (02/10/2004)
• Unemployment rate in January (02/09/2004)

• Productivity growth in 2003 (02/06/2004)
• San Jose had biggest unemployment rate drop in 2003 (02/05/2004)
• Employment cost increases by region in 2003 (02/04/2004)
• Low pay and establishment size (02/03/2004)
• Fewer layoffs in 2003 (02/02/2004)

January 2004

• Compensation costs up 4.0 percent in private industry over the year (01/30/2004)
• Gross job gains and losses in the second quarter of 2003 (01/29/2004)
• Lowest unemployment rates in December 2003: North and South Dakota (01/28/2004)
• Evaluating projections of labor force participation rates (01/27/2004)
• Age and the working poor (01/26/2004)

• Mass layoffs in December 2003 (01/23/2004)
• Union membership declines again in 2003 (01/22/2004)
• Multiple jobholders in 2002 (01/21/2004)
• Real earnings in December (01/20/2004)
• CPI up 1.9 percent over the year (01/16/2004)

• PPI rises in December (01/15/2004)
• Import prices in December (01/14/2004)
• Payroll employment flat in December (01/13/2004)
• Demographics of unemployment, December 2003 (01/12/2004)
• Women's participation pattern is now more like men's (01/09/2004)

• Counties with fastest growing employment, June 2003 (01/08/2004)
• Evaluating 1988-2000 employment projections (01/07/2004)
• Extent of unemployment in 2002 (01/06/2004)
• Activities of volunteers (01/05/2004)
• Days away from work, job transfer, or restriction due to injuries and illnesses, 2002 (01/02/2004)