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

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Chronological listing

December 2011

• Recycling occupations (12/30/2011)

• Educational attainment of women in the labor force, 1970–2010 (12/29/2011)
• Mass layoffs in November 2011 (12/28/2011)
• Manufacturing compensation costs in foreign countries and in the United States, 2010 (12/27/2011)
• Women in the labor force, 2010 (12/23/2011)
• State employment and unemployment, November 2011 (12/22/2011)

• Real earnings in November 2011 (12/21/2011)
• CPI up 3.4 percent, November 2010–November 2011 (12/20/2011)
• Producer prices in November 2011 (12/19/2011)
• Import and export prices in November 2011 (12/16/2011)
• Job openings and labor turnover in October 2011 (12/15/2011)

• Educational attainment and unemployment among Asians in the United States (12/14/2011)
• Fatal occupational injuries in retail trade, 2003–2008 (12/13/2011)
• Construction employment and wages, May 2010 (12/12/2011)
• State and local government employer costs for employee compensation, September 2011 (12/09/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, October 2011 (12/08/2011)

• Employment and wage trends in high-tech industries in Massachusetts (12/07/2011)
• Asians in the U.S. labor force, 2008–2010 (12/06/2011)
• Unemployment rate falls to 8.6 percent in November 2011 (12/05/2011)
• Payroll employment increases by 120,000 in November 2011 (12/02/2011)
• Third quarter 2011 productivity growth revised downward (12/01/2011)

November 2011

• Average wage for the highest paying occupational group nearly five times that of the lowest paying group (11/30/2011)
• State employment and unemployment, October 2011 (11/29/2011)
• Mass layoffs and initial claims decrease in October 2011 (11/28/2011)
• In 2011, first quarter gross job losses at lowest level since series began in 1992 (11/25/2011)
• Real hourly earnings fall 1.6 percent over the year (11/23/2011)

• CPI up 3.5 percent from October 2010 to October 2011 (11/22/2011)
• Producer prices in October 2011 (11/21/2011)
• Import and export prices down in October 2011 (11/18/2011)
• Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in 2010 (11/17/2011)
• Extended mass layoff events and separations, third quarter 2011 (11/16/2011)

• Job openings and labor turnover in September 2011 (11/15/2011)
• Productivity, output, and hours worked, third quarter 2011 (11/14/2011)
• Employment of veterans, 2010 (11/10/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Midwest, September 2011 (11/09/2011)
• New York City's "pay premium" from 1990 to 2009 (11/08/2011)

• Unemployment rate at 9.0 percent in October 2011 (11/07/2011)
• Employment trends upward in October (11/04/2011)
• Workers in abolished occupations (11/03/2011)
• Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (11/02/2011)
• Compensation costs for state and local government workers, September 2011 (11/01/2011)

October 2011

• Mass layoffs in September 2011 (10/31/2011)
• State employment and unemployment, September 2011 (10/28/2011)
• Median weekly earnings, third quarter 2011 (10/27/2011)
• Private industry workplace injuries and illnesses decline in 2010 (10/26/2011)
• Real earnings in September 2011 (10/25/2011)

• Consumer prices increase 3.9 percent in 12 months (10/24/2011)
• Producer prices in September 2011 (10/21/2011)
• Helping those in need: Human service workers (10/20/2011)
• International manufacturing productivity, 2010 (10/19/2011)
• Import and export prices, September 2011 (10/18/2011)

• Job openings, hires, and separations rates in August 2011 (10/17/2011)
• Employment in Silicon Valley high-tech businesses, 2000–2009 (10/14/2011)
• Occupations in electric vehicle manufacturing (10/13/2011)
• Displaced workers by industry (10/12/2011)
• Unemployment in September 2011 (10/11/2011)

• Payroll employment edges up in September 2011 (10/07/2011)
• Consumer spending patterns, 2008–2010 (10/06/2011)
• Unemployment rates by race and ethnicity, 2010 (10/05/2011)
• Employment in large counties, March 2010–March 2011 (10/04/2011)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates comparison, August 2011 (10/03/2011)

September 2011

• Employment in large metropolitan areas, August 2011 (09/30/2011)

• Overall consumer expenditures fall in 2010 (09/29/2011)
• Multifactor productivity in manufacturing, 2009 (09/28/2011)
• Mass layoffs in August 2011 (09/27/2011)
• Outpatient prescription drug coverage, March 2010 (09/26/2011)
• State unemployment rates, August 2011 (09/23/2011)

• Statistically significant employment changes, August 2011 (09/22/2011)
• Real earnings in August 2011 (09/21/2011)
• CPI up 3.8 percent from August 2010 to August 2011 (09/20/2011)
• Producer prices for finished goods, August 2011 (09/19/2011)
• Import and export prices in August 2011 (09/16/2011)

• Employment dynamics during and after the 2007–2009 recession (09/15/2011)
• Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010 (09/14/2011)
• Retirement and savings benefit costs for employers in private industry, June 2011 (09/13/2011)
• Job openings and labor turnover in July 2011 (09/12/2011)
• Second quarter 2011 productivity growth revised downward (09/09/2011)

• Unemployment rate 9.1 percent in August 2011 (09/08/2011)
• Zero over-the-month change in payroll employment (09/07/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Northeast, July 2011 (09/06/2011)
• Average time spent caring for household children, 2006–2010 (09/02/2011)
• Interactive dashboards from International Labor Comparisons (09/01/2011)

August 2011

• Productivity in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2010 (08/31/2011)
• Fatal occupational injuries by incident in 2010 (08/30/2011)
• Fatal occupational injuries in 2010 (08/29/2011)

• Youth employment in July 2011 (08/26/2011)
• July mass layoff events and initial claims about the same as June (08/25/2011)
• State unemployment rates, July 2011 (08/24/2011)
• Employment changes by state, July 2010–July 2011 (08/23/2011)
• Real average hourly earnings down 1.3 percent over the year (08/22/2011)

• Consumer prices increase from July 2010 to July 2011 (08/19/2011)
• Producer prices in July 2011 (08/18/2011)
• Import and export prices, July 2011 (08/17/2011)
• Careers in sales (08/16/2011)
• Extended mass layoff events, second quarter 2011 (08/15/2011)

• Job openings in June 2011 (08/12/2011)
• Output, hours, and productivity in the second quarter of 2011 (08/11/2011)
• Unemployment in July 2011 (08/10/2011)
• Payroll employment rises in July 2011 (08/09/2011)
• Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, June 2011 (08/08/2011)

• Metropolitan area employment in June 2011 (08/05/2011)
• Job gains and losses by firm size, fourth quarter 2010 (08/04/2011)
• Careers in green construction (08/03/2011)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs, June 2011 (08/02/2011)
• Workplace fatalities in mining, 2004–2008 (08/01/2011)

July 2011

• Medical plan benefits for physical therapy, kidney dialysis, and other benefits in 2009 (07/29/2011)
• Access to benefits in private industry, March 2011 (07/28/2011)
• Changes in state unemployment rates: June 2010–June 2011 (07/27/2011)
• States with statistically significant employment changes, June 2011 (07/26/2011)
• Mass layoffs in June 2011 (07/25/2011)

• Women's earnings, 1979–2010 (07/22/2011)
• Median usual weekly earnings, by race, ethnicity, and education, second quarter, 2011 (07/21/2011)
• Real earnings in June 2011 (07/20/2011)
• Consumer Price Index increases 3.6 percent in 12 months (again) (07/19/2011)
• Producer prices in June 2011 (07/18/2011)

• Import and export prices in June 2011 (07/15/2011)
• Job openings and labor turnover in May 2011 (07/14/2011)
• Number and incidence rates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses by occupation, 2009 (07/13/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.2 percent in June 2011 (07/12/2011)
• Payroll employment essentially unchanged in June 2011 (07/11/2011)

• Employee participation in defined contribution savings and thrift plans (07/08/2011)
• Extended mass layoffs and occupational employment, 1999-2008 (07/07/2011)
• Employment and wages in the 10 largest U.S. counties, 2009-2010 (07/06/2011)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates, May 2011 (07/05/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment, May 2011 (07/01/2011)

June 2011

• Maternity care benefits among medical plan participants, 2009 (06/30/2011)
• Careers in solar power (06/29/2011)

• Labor force characteristics of persons with a disability in 2010 (06/28/2011)
• Time spent in leisure activities, 2010 (06/27/2011)
• Work at home and in the workplace, 2010 (06/24/2011)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs by region, May 2011 (06/23/2011)
• Over-the-year changes in state unemployment rates, May 2010–2011 (06/22/2011)

• States with statistically significant employment changes in May 2011 (06/21/2011)
• Real earnings in May 2011 (06/20/2011)
• Consumer Price Index increases 3.6 percent in 12 months (06/17/2011)
• Producer prices in May 2011 (06/16/2011)
• Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations, May 2009 (06/15/2011)

• Import prices from May 2010 to May 2011 (06/14/2011)
• Occupational employment by ownership, May 2010 (06/13/2011)
• Employer costs for employee compensation in March 2011 (06/10/2011)
• Job openings rates, by industry, April 2011 (06/09/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.1 percent in May 2011 (06/08/2011)

• Payroll employment little changed in May 2011 (06/07/2011)
• First quarter 2011 productivity revised upward (06/06/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Southwest, April 2011 (06/03/2011)
• Duration of unemployment, 1994–2010 (06/02/2011)
• Employed foreign-born and native-born persons by occupation, 2010 (06/01/2011)

May 2011

• Productivity in selected service-providing and mining industries, 2009 (05/31/2011)

• Pay comparisons between metropolitan areas in 2010 (05/25/2011)
• West reports highest regional unemployment rate, April 2011 (05/26/2011)
• State employment changes, April 2011 (05/25/2011)
• Mass layoffs in April 2011 (05/24/2011)
• Annual wages of largest occupations, May 2010 (05/23/2011)

• Retail salespersons: occupation with highest employment in 2010 (05/20/2011)
• Real earnings in April 2011 (05/19/2011)
• Consumer prices increase 3.2 percent in 12 months (05/18/2011)
• Producer Price Index for finished goods up 6.8 percent over the year (05/17/2011)
• Extended mass layoffs, first quarter 2011 (05/13/2011)

• Job openings and job openings rate in March 2011 (05/13/2011)
• Import and export prices increase from April 2010 to April 2011 (05/12/2011)
• Productivity in the first quarter of 2011 (05/11/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.0 percent in April 2011 (05/10/2011)
• Employment changes by industry, April 2011 (05/09/2011)

• Share of married-couple families with an employed mother at its lowest, 1994-2010 (05/06/2011)
• Gross job gains and losses in the third quarter of 2010 (05/05/2011)
• Employment during the 2007–2009 recession (05/04/2011)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs, March 2010–March 2011 (05/03/2011)
• Three occupations in management, scientific, and technical consulting services (05/02/2011)

April 2011

• Metropolitan area unemployment in March 2011 (04/29/2011)

• Employment in metropolitan areas, March 2011 (04/28/2011)
• Labor costs in the auto industry (04/27/2011)
• Mass layoffs in March 2011 (04/26/2011)
• Median weekly earnings in first quarter 2011 by demographics (04/25/2011)
• State unemployment rates, March 2011 (04/22/2011)

• States with statistically significant employment changes, March 2011 (04/21/2011)
• Real earnings decline in March 2011 (04/20/2011)
• Consumer Price Index increases 2.7 percent in 12 months (04/19/2011)
• Producer prices in March 2011 (04/18/2011)
• Employment in tax preparation services (04/15/2011)

• Job openings and labor turnover in February 2011 (04/14/2011)
• Import and export prices up in March 2011 (04/13/2011)
• High school grads not enrolled in college more likely to be in the labor force (04/12/2011)
• Unemployment in metropolitan areas, February 2011 (04/11/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment, February 2011 (04/08/2011)

• Manufacturing compensation costs in China, 2008 (04/07/2011)
• Unemployment in March 2011 (04/06/2011)
• Employment changes by industry in March 2011 (04/05/2011)
• Multifactor productivity in private nonfarm business, 2009 (04/04/2011)
• Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses among food and beverage servers in 2008 (04/01/2011)

March 2011

• Employment and wages in large U.S. counties, September 2009–September 2010 (03/31/2011)
• State unemployment rates, February 2011 (03/30/2011)
• State employment changes, February 2010–February 2011 (03/29/2011)

• Employment characteristics of families, 2010 (03/28/2011)
• Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2009 (03/25/2011)
• Mass layoffs in February 2011 (03/24/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the Southeast, January 2011 (03/23/2011)
• Real hourly earnings fall 0.4 percent over the year (03/22/2011)

• Consumer prices in February 2011 (03/21/2011)
• Producer prices in February 2011 (03/18/2011)
• Import and export prices increase from February 2010 to February 2011 (03/17/2011)
• Unemployment rates of veterans, 2010 (03/16/2011)
• Job openings and labor turnover in January 2011 (03/15/2011)

• State unemployment rates, January 2011 (03/14/2011)
• State employment changes, January 2011 (03/11/2011)
• Manufacturing compensation costs in foreign countries and U.S., 2009 (03/10/2011)
• State and local government employee benefits, March 2010 (03/09/2011)
• Duration of unemployment in February 2011 (03/08/2011)

• Payroll employment up in February 2011 (03/07/2011)
• Productivity in the fourth quarter of 2010 (03/04/2011)
• Nonfatal injuries and illnesses in State and local government industries, 2008 (03/03/2011)
• Workplace injuries involving the eyes, 2008 (03/02/2011)
• State unemployment rates in 2010 (03/01/2011)

February 2011

• State employment-population ratio declines, 2010 (02/28/2011)
• Mass layoff initial claims by industry, January 2011 (02/25/2011)
• The compensation-productivity gap (02/24/2011)
• Real earnings in January 2011 (02/23/2011)

• Producer prices in January 2011 — stage-of-processing indexes (02/22/2011)
• Consumer prices increase 1.6 percent in 12 months (02/18/2011)
• Import and Export Prices, Janaury 2011 (02/17/2011)
• Women's earnings and employment by industry, 2009 (02/16/2011)
• Extended mass layoffs, fourth quarter 2010 (02/15/2011)

• Youth at college and work (02/14/2011)
• Job openings and labor turnover in December 2010 (02/11/2011)
• Work stoppages in 2010 (02/10/2011)
• Unemployment rate declines to 9.0 percent in January 2011 (02/09/2011)
• Employment changes by industry in January 2011 (02/08/2011)

• Unit labor costs and productivity in manufacturing, 2010 (02/07/2011)
• Employment and unemployment in the West, December 2010 (02/04/2011)
• Job gains exceed job losses for first time since December 2007 (02/03/2011)
• It pays to be the boss—supervisory wages in 2009 (02/02/2011)
• Private industry compensation costs increase 2.1 percent in 2010 (02/01/2011)

January 2011

• Mass layoffs in 2010 (01/31/2011)
• Volunteering in 2010 (01/28/2011)
• Regional and State unemployment rates, December 2009 to December 2010 (01/27/2011)
• State employment changes, December 2009–December 2010 (01/26/2011)
• Union membership declines in 2010 (01/25/2011)

• Median weekly earnings for men and women in fourth quarter 2010 (01/24/2011)
• Top searches on the BLS website (01/21/2011)
• Real earnings fall 0.4 percent in December 2010 (01/20/2011)
• CPI increases 1.5 percent in 2010 (01/19/2011)
• Producer prices in December 2010 (01/18/2011)

• Import and export prices increase in 2010 (01/14/2011)
• Employment changes among large U.S. counties, June 2009–June 2010 (01/13/2011)
• Job openings in November 2010 (01/12/2011)
• Unemployment in December 2010 (01/11/2011)
• Payroll employment up 1.1 million in 2010 (01/10/2011)

• Metropolitan area unemployment in November 2010 (01/07/2011)
• Metropolitan area employment, November 2010 (01/06/2011)
• Women in the labor force, 1970–2009 (01/05/2011)
• Share of long-term unemployment in States, 2007–09 (01/04/2011)
• The impact of the U.S. housing bubble and bust on employment, 2001–09 (01/03/2011)