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

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Chronological listing

December 2010

• Fatal occupational injuries among volunteer workers, 2003–07 (12/30/2010)

• Mass layoff initial claims in manufacturing, November 2010 (12/29/2010)
• International manufacturing productivity, 2009 (12/28/2010)
• State unemployment rates, November 2009 to November 2010 (12/27/2010)
• State employment changes, November 2009–November 2010 (12/23/2010)
• Careers in wind energy (12/22/2010)

• Work experience during 2009 (12/21/2010)
• Real earnings fall 0.1 percent in November 2010 (12/20/2010)
• Consumer prices in November 2010 (12/17/2010)
• Producer prices in November 2010 (12/16/2010)
• Import and export prices increase in November 2010 (12/15/2010)

• Employees required to contribute to their defined contribution retirement plans (12/14/2010)
• Insurance benefits costs for employers in private industry, September 2010 (12/13/2010)
• Employment and unemployment in the Midwest, October 2010 (12/10/2010)
• Job openings in October 2010 (12/09/2010)
• Fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites, 1995–2007 (12/08/2010)

• Unemployment in November 2010 (12/07/2010)
• Job gains continue in temporary help services and health care in November (12/06/2010)
• Unit labor costs in the third quarter of 2010 (12/03/2010)
• Mass layoff events and initial claims by industry, October 2010 (12/02/2010)
• State unemployment rates, October 2010 (12/01/2010)

November 2010

• State employment changes, October 2009–October 2010 (11/30/2010)
• Gross job gains and losses in the first quarter of 2010 (11/29/2010)
• Real earnings in October 2010 (11/26/2010)
• Wages of full- and part-time cooks in 2009 (11/24/2010)

• Consumer prices increase 1.2 percent in 12 months (11/23/2010)
• Producer prices in October 2010 — stage-of-processing indexes (11/22/2010)
• Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work decrease in 2009 (11/18/2010)
• Long-term unemployment rate remains high in 2010 (11/17/2010)
• Over-the-year declines in extended mass layoffs (11/16/2010)

• Export price index rose 5.8 percent over the past year (11/15/2010)
• Job openings and job openings rate in September 2010 (11/09/2010)
• Unemployment in October 2010 (11/10/2010)
• Payroll employment up in October 2010 (11/09/2010)
• Productivity gains in the third quarter of 2010 (11/08/2010)

• Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, September 2010 (11/05/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, September 2010 (11/04/2010)
• Occupations with high geographic concentration, 2009 (11/03/2010)
• 12-month private industry compensation costs increase 2.0 percent (11/02/2010)
• Health insurance costs to employers and employees, 1999 to 2009 (11/01/2010)

October 2010

• Decreases in mass layoff initial claims in September 2010 (10/29/2010)
• Private industry workplace injuries and illnesses decline in 2009 (10/28/2010)
• Unemployment by geographic region and division, September 2010 (10/27/2010)
• State employment changes, September 2009–September 2010 (10/26/2010)
• Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2010 (10/25/2010)

• Demographics of the self-employed (10/22/2010)
• Average weekly wages among large counties, March 2010 (10/21/2010)
• Real earnings fall 0.1 percent in September (10/20/2010)
• Consumer Prices in September 2010 (10/19/2010)
• Producer prices in September 2010 (10/18/2010)

• Import and export prices, September 2010 (10/15/2010)
• Spending on mortgage interest payments and charges decreases from 2007 to 2009 (10/14/2010)
• Unemployment rate demographics, September 2010 (10/13/2010)
• Employment decreases in government in September (10/12/2010)
• Job openings for total nonfarm are little changed in August 2010 (10/08/2010)

• Spending on housing and transportation falls in 2009 (10/07/2010)
• Average hourly earnings for major occupational groups, July 2009 (10/06/2010)
• Metropolitan area unemployment in August 2010 (10/05/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, August 2010 (10/04/2010)
• Multifactor productivity in manufacturing, 2008 (10/01/2010)

September 2010

• Mass layoffs in August 2010 (09/30/2010)

• Over-the-year changes in State unemployment rates (09/29/2010)
• State employment changes, August 2009–August 2010 (09/28/2010)
• Employee tenure, January 2010 (09/27/2010)
• Number of jobs held by baby boomers, 1978–2008 (09/24/2010)
• Real earnings in August 2010 (09/23/2010)

• Consumer Prices in August 2010 (09/22/2010)
• Producer prices in August 2010 (09/21/2010)
• Import and export prices in August (09/20/2010)
• Job openings and job openings rate in July 2010 (09/17/2010)
• Costs of retirement and savings benefits for employers in private industry, June 2010 (09/16/2010)

• Automatic enrollment in savings and thrift retirement plans, March 2009 (09/15/2010)
• Unemployment in August 2010 (09/14/2010)
• Employment changes by industry in August 2010 (09/13/2010)
• Second quarter 2010 productivity growth revised downward (09/10/2010)
• Unemployment in large U.S. metropolitan areas, July 2010 (09/09/2010)

• Metropolitan area employment, July 2010 (09/08/2010)
• Productivity in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services, 2009 (09/07/2010)
• Youth employment and unemployment in July 2010 (09/03/2010)
• Reemployment rates of displaced workers, January 2010 (09/02/2010)
• International comparisons of hourly compensation costs in manufacturing, 2008 (09/01/2010)

August 2010

• Employment among the disabled by age in 2009 (08/31/2010)
• Multifactor productivity in private nonfarm business, 2008 (08/30/2010)

• State unemployment rates, July 2010 (08/27/2010)
• State employment changes, July 2009–July 2010 (08/26/2010)
• Mass layoff initial claimants for unemployment insurance, July 2010 (08/25/2010)
• Fatal occupational injuries in 2009 (08/24/2010)
• Gross job gains and losses in the fourth quarter of 2009 (08/23/2010)

• Producer Prices in July 2010 (08/20/2010)
• Real earnings in July 2010 (08/19/2010)
• Consumer prices in July 2010 (08/18/2010)
• U.S. import prices increase in July (08/17/2010)
• Hires and separation rates, government and private industry, June 2010 (08/16/2010)

• Extended mass layoffs, second quarter 2010 (08/13/2010)
• Unit labor costs in manufacturing, second quarter 2010 (08/12/2010)
• Unemployment in July 2010 (08/11/2010)
• Payroll employment declines in July 2010 (08/10/2010)
• Demographics of multiple jobholding (08/09/2010)

• Access to employer-provided benefits among full- and part-time private industry workers, March 2010 (08/06/2010)
• Demographics of Gulf War-era II veterans (08/05/2010)
• Compensation costs in June 2010 (08/04/2010)
• Largest occupations in private and government sectors, May 2009 (08/03/2010)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates, June 2010 (08/02/2010)

July 2010

• Over-the-year employment changes in large metro areas, June 2010 (07/30/2010)

• Supplemental pay in the healthcare industry, 2007–10 (07/29/2010)
• Mass layoff initial claimants in manufacturing, June 2010 (07/28/2010)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas in 2009 (07/27/2010)
• Usual weekly earnings in second quarter 2010 by education (07/26/2010)
• State unemployment rates, June 2010 (07/23/2010)

• State employment changes, June 2009–June 2010 (07/22/2010)
• Real earnings in June 2010 (07/21/2010)
• Consumer prices in June 2010 (07/20/2010)
• Producer prices in June 2010 — stage-of-processing indexes (07/19/2010)
• Import and export prices decrease in June (07/16/2010)

• Job openings in May 2010 (07/15/2010)
• Mean hourly compensation costs in selected countries, 1975 and 2007 (07/14/2010)
• Multifactor productivity in nonmanufacturing industries, 1987–2006 (07/13/2010)
• Employment changes in the largest counties, December 2009 (07/12/2010)
• Employee union representation elections, 1997–2009 (07/09/2010)

• Women's-to-men's earnings ratio by age, 2009 (07/08/2010)
• Unemployment in June 2010 (07/07/2010)
• Payroll employment declines in June 2010 (07/06/2010)
• Employment and unemployment in New England, May 2010 (07/02/2010)
• Average time spent caring for household children, 2005–2009 (07/01/2010)

June 2010

• Mass layoff events and initial claims, May 2010 (06/30/2010)
• Percent of men and women engaged in household activities, 2009 (06/29/2010)

• State unemployment rates, May 2010 (06/28/2010)
• State employment changes, May 2009–May 2010 (06/25/2010)
• Manufacturing, mining, and service-providing productivity, 2008 (06/24/2010)
• Real earnings up in May 2010 (06/23/2010)
• Consumer Prices in May 2010 (06/22/2010)

• Producer prices in May 2010 (06/21/2010)
• Employment and unemployment of fathers without spouses (06/18/2010)
• Import and export prices, May 2010 (06/17/2010)
• Museum occupations: skills on exhibit (06/16/2010)
• Occupational employment in May 2009 (06/15/2010)

• Health insurance benefit costs in private industry, March 2010 (06/14/2010)
• Job openings in April (06/11/2010)
• Unemployment in May 2010 (06/10/2010)
• Employment changes by industry in May 2010 (06/09/2010)
• First quarter 2010 productivity growth revised downward (06/08/2010)

• Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate changes, April 2010 (06/07/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, April 2010 (06/04/2010)
• Compensation costs in India (06/03/2010)
• Summertime school enrollment and employment among teens (06/02/2010)
• Families with unemployed members in 2009 (06/01/2010)

May 2010

• State over-the-month and over-the-year unemployment rate changes, April 2010 (05/28/2010)
• State employment changes, April 2010 (05/27/2010)
• Mass layoffs in April 2010 (05/26/2010)
• Job losses decline in the third quarter of 2009 (05/25/2010)
• Real earnings in April 2010 (05/24/2010)

• Consumer Prices in April 2010 (05/21/2010)
• Highest and lowest mean hourly wages in May 2009 (05/20/2010)
• Producer Prices in April 2010 (05/19/2010)
• Employment and wages in the 10 largest occupations, May 2009 (05/18/2010)
• Compensation costs for nonresidential construction workers are rising (05/17/2010)

• Record decreases in extended mass layoffs, 2009 Q1 (05/14/2010)
• Job openings by industry, March 2010 (05/13/2010)
• Unemployment in April 2010 (05/12/2010)
• Employment changes by industry in April 2010 (05/11/2010)
• First quarter 2010 over-the-year productivity growth (05/10/2010)

• Labor force participation rates among mothers (05/07/2010)
• Occupations with increasing employment, 2008–2018 (05/06/2010)
• Industry shifts put Philadelphia on a new road to job growth (05/05/2010)
• Compensation costs in March 2010 (05/04/2010)
• Hourly earnings of healthcare practitioner and technical occupations, by work level, 2008 (05/03/2010)

April 2010

• Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, March 2010 (04/30/2010)
• Over-the-year metro area employment changes, March 2010 (04/29/2010)

• College enrollment up among 2009 high school grads (04/28/2010)
• Supplemental Pay in the Finance and Insurance Industry (04/27/2010)
• Mass layoff initial claimants for unemployment insurance, March 2010 (04/26/2010)
• Producer prices in March 2010 (04/23/2010)
• State unemployment rates, March 2010 (04/22/2010)

• Over-the-month employment changes by State in March (04/21/2010)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2010 by demographics (04/20/2010)
• Real earnings in March 2010 (04/19/2010)
• Consumer Prices in March 2010 (04/16/2010)
• Metropolitan geography of tax preparers employment and earnings (04/15/2010)

• Import and export prices increase in March 2010 (04/14/2010)
• Collective Bargaining Disputes in 2009
(04/13/2010)
• Metropolitan area over-the-year employment changes, February 2010
(04/12/2010)
• Metropolitan area over-the-year unemployment rate changes, February 2010
(04/09/2010)
• Average hourly earnings for all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees, by industry, 2009 (04/08/2010)

• Job openings in February (04/07/2010)
• Unemployment in March 2010 (04/06/2010)
• Payroll employment in March 2010 (04/05/2010)
• Employment declines in large counties, September 2008-2009 (04/02/2010)
• Geography of unemployment, February 2010 (04/01/2010)

March 2010

• State employment changes, February 2010 (03/31/2010)
• Mass layoff events and initial claims down in February 2010 (03/30/2010)
• Metropolitan area unemployment rates, January 2010 (03/29/2010)

• January payroll employment in "Sweet 16" metropolitan areas (03/26/2010)
• Consumer out-of-pocket health care expenditures in 2008 (03/25/2010)
• Unemployment rates for foreign-born workers, 2009 (03/24/2010)
• Real Earnings, February 2010 (03/23/2010)
• Consumer Prices in February 2010 (03/22/2010)

• Producer Prices in February 2010 (03/19/2010)
• Import and export prices fall in February (03/18/2010)
• Disabled veterans and the labor force (03/17/2010)
• Paid leave benefit costs in private industry, March 2009 (03/16/2010)
• Earnings of healthcare workers in hospitals, 2008 (03/15/2010)

• State unemployment rates and over-the-month employment changes, January 2010 (03/12/2010)
• Hires and separations by industry, 2009 (03/11/2010)
• Unemployment in February 2010 (03/10/2010)
• Payroll employment in February 2010 (03/09/2010)
• Unit labor costs in the fourth quarter of 2009 (03/08/2010)

• State employment-population ratio declines, 2008–09 (03/05/2010)
• Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work for State government and local government workers, 2008 (03/04/2010)
• Mass layoff events and initial claims up in January 2010 (03/03/2010)
• Gross job gains and losses in the second quarter of 2009 (03/02/2010)
• Real earnings, January 2010 (03/01/2010)

February 2010

• Consumer prices in January 2010 (02/26/2010)
• Producer prices in January 2010 — stage-of-processing indexes (02/25/2010)
• Import and export prices, January 2010 (02/24/2010)
• Extended mass layoffs in 2009 (02/23/2010)
• Work stoppages in 2009 (02/22/2010)

• Youth at college and work (02/19/2010)
• Job openings rate, December 2009 (02/18/2010)
• Unemployment in January 2010 (02/17/2010)
• Payroll employment in January 2010 (02/16/2010)
• Productivity increases, output and hours decline in 2009 (02/12/2010)

• Volunteering on the rise: September 2008-September 2009 (02/05/2010)
• Employment declines in metropolitan divisions, December 2008–December 2009 (02/04/2010)
• Employment costs for private industry workers, December 2009 (02/03/2010)
• Mass layoffs in 2009 (02/02/2010)
• Union membership declines in 2009 (02/01/2010)

January 2010

• State employment changes, December 2009 (01/29/2010)
• State unemployment rate increases, December 2008–December 2009 (01/28/2010)
• Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by major occupational group and sex, 2009 (01/27/2010)
• States with highest multiple jobholding rates (01/26/2010)

• Producer prices in December 2009 (01/25/2010)
• Real earnings in December 2009 (01/22/2010)
• Consumer Prices in December 2009 (01/21/2010)
• Import and export prices increase in 2009 (01/20/2010)
• Employment declines in U.S. counties, June 2008–09 (01/19/2010)

• Hires and separation rates, November 2009 (01/15/2010)
• Long-term unemployment in December 2009 (01/14/2010)
• Unemployment in large metropolitan areas, November 2009 (01/13/2010)
• Payroll employment in 2009 (01/12/2010)
• Metropolitan area employment, November 2009 (01/11/2010)

• Take-up rates for medical care plans among State and local government and private industry workers, March 2009 (01/08/2010)
• Manufacturing industries and productivity, 2007 (01/07/2010)
• Work-experience unemployment rate, 2008 (01/06/2010)
• Labor force demographics, 2008 (01/05/2010)
• Employment projections for major industries, 2008-18 (01/04/2010)