2003 Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk (in chronological order)
December 2003
- Productivity up in most of largest retail trade industries (12/31/2003)
- Mass layoffs by industry sector, November 2003 (12/30/2003)
- Unemployment during 2002 by race, Hispanic ethnicity, and sex (12/29/2003)
- Older volunteers put in most hours (12/24/2003)
- Percent of men and women that worked during 2002 (12/23/2003)
- Workplace injuries by industry, 2002 (12/22/2003)
- Increase in volunteering (12/19/2003)
- Real average weekly earnings higher in November (12/18/2003)
- Most cases of repeated-trauma disorder are in manufacturing (12/18/2003)
- CPI falls in November (12/17/2003)
- Nursing animals to health (12/16/2003)
- PPI down in November (12/15/2003)
- Import prices in November (12/12/2003)
- Variation in workers paid Federal minimum wage by region (12/11/2003)
- Spending on travel (12/11/2003)
- Employment-population ratios of women in 12 countries (12/10/2003)
- Unemployment rate in November (12/09/2003)
- Manufacturing employment in November (12/08/2003)
- Spending on entertainment in 2002 (12/05/2003)
- Productivity growth in third quarter higher than originally reported (12/04/2003)
- Service jobs most likely to pay minimum wage (12/03/2003)
- Lowest paying occupations in 2002 (12/02/2003)
- Mass-layoff initial claims lower in October 2003 (12/01/2003)
November 2003
- Wages and benefits in State and local government, September 2003 (11/28/2003)
- Gross job gains and losses in the first quarter (11/26/2003)
- Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care (11/25/2003)
- Highest paying occupations in 2002 (11/24/2003)
- Extended mass layoffs down in third quarter (11/21/2003)
- Real earnings up in October (11/20/2003)
- CPI unchanged in October (11/19/2003)
- Employment change in membership organizations (11/18/2003)
- Value of quality changes averages $82.96 in 2004 model-year cars (11/18/2003)
- Beef, vehicle prices contribute to October PPI gain (11/17/2003)
- Higher agricultural export prices in October (11/14/2003)
- Factory output and productivity higher in third quarter (11/13/2003)
- Unemployment rate 6 percent in October (11/12/2003)
- Payroll employment rises again in October (11/10/2003)
- Productivity climbs in third quarter (11/07/2003)
- Counties with fastest growing pay, first quarter 2003 (11/06/2003)
- Growth in compensation costs for State and local government workers during the year ended September 2003 (11/05/2003)
- Travel expenditures by age (11/04/2003)
- Counties with fastest growing employment, March 2003 (11/03/2003)
October 2003
- Wage gains through the fourth quarter of 2002 (10/31/2003)
- Employment costs up 1.0 percent from June to September (10/31/2003)
- Earnings and union status (10/30/2003)
- Women’s earnings in professional specialty occupations (10/29/2003)
- Changes in spending patterns among Hispanics (10/28/2003)
- Hours of volunteer work (10/27/2003)
- Mass layoffs in September 2003 (10/24/2003)
- Work experience rises again (10/23/2003)
- Earnings by educational attainment and sex, 1979 and 2002 (10/23/2003)
- Differences in women’s and men’s earnings by race and Hispanic origin (10/22/2003)
- Earnings and occupation: third quarter of 2003 (10/21/2003)
- Real earnings decline in September (10/20/2003)
- Consumer prices up 0.3 percent in September (10/17/2003)
- Women’s earnings 78 percent of men’s in 2002 (10/16/2003)
- Labor force participation during recent labor market downturns (10/15/2003)
- Producer prices advance in September (10/14/2003)
- Oil import prices down in September (10/10/2003)
- Productivity growth in information-sector industries (10/09/2003)
- Supply, demand, and consumer gasoline prices (10/08/2003)
- Payroll employment in September 2003 (10/07/2003)
- Unemployment rates in September (10/06/2003)
- Retirement plans in 2003 (10/03/2003)
- Fatal occupational injuries by industry, 2002 (10/02/2003)
- New statistics on business employment dynamics (10/01/2003)
September 2003
- Health care plans in 2003 (09/30/2003)
- Average foreign compensation stays in line with U.S. factories (09/29/2003)
- Mass layoffs in August (09/26/2003)
- Employee contributions for medical insurance in 2003 (09/25/2003)
- Most frequent types of work-related fatalities in 2002 (09/24/2003)
- Productivity up in just over half of industries in 2001 (09/23/2003)
- Fatal work injuries count lower in 2002 (09/22/2003)
- Consumer prices increase 0.3 percent in August (09/17/2003)
- Manufacturing unit labor costs lower in 2002 in U.S., Japan, Taiwan (09/16/2003)
- Producer prices rise again in August (09/15/2003)
- Oil import prices advance in August (09/12/2003)
- Sweden, Korea had largest factory productivity gains last year (09/11/2003)
- Extended mass layoffs and the 9/11 attacks (09/10/2003)
- Unemployment about unchanged in August (09/09/2003)
- Hours, earnings, and payrolls in August (09/08/2003)
- Upward revision of second quarter 2003 productivity growth (09/05/2003)
- Substantial layoffs in 2002 (09/04/2003)
- July mass layoff events by industry sector (09/03/2003)
- New and emerging occupations by industry, 2000 (09/02/2003)
August 2003
- Mass layoffs in July (08/29/2003)
- Employee retirement and savings benefits higher for union workers (08/28/2003)
- Employee benefits in June 2003 (08/27/2003)
- Retirees by region (08/26/2003)
- Minimum wage workers in 2002 (08/25/2003)
- Metro areas with highest percentages of high-tech workers (08/22/2003)
- Extended mass layoffs in second quarter (08/21/2003)
- Employment and wages in elementary and secondary schools (08/20/2003)
- Manufacturing productivity in the second quarter (08/19/2003)
- Consumer prices up 0.2 percent in July (08/18/2003)
- Producer prices edged up in July (08/15/2003)
- Import prices in July (08/14/2003)
- Growth in wages and salaries by region over the year (08/13/2003)
- Lowest July labor force participation rate for youth since 1966 (08/12/2003)
- Fewer youths in summer work (08/11/2003)
- Productivity advances in second quarter (08/08/2003)
- Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin (08/07/2003)
- Benefit costs for State and local government workers jump over the year (08/06/2003)
- Unemployment duration as of July 2003 (08/05/2003)
- Payroll employment in July (08/04/2003)
- Employment costs up 0.8 percent from March to June (08/01/2003)
July 2003
- Composition of new information supersector (07/31/2003)
- GDP per employed person in 10 countries, 2002 (07/30/2003)
- June 2003 mass layoffs by region (07/29/2003)
- Earnings higher in larger establishments (07/28/2003)
- Mass layoffs in June (07/25/2003)
- Unemployment and marital status of women with young children in 2002 (07/24/2003)
- Occupational earnings in July 2002 (07/23/2003)
- Earnings highest in Middle Atlantic division (07/22/2003)
- Variation in worker earnings, July 2002 (07/21/2003)
- Earnings and educational attainment: second quarter of 2003 (07/18/2003)
- Consumer prices up in June (07/17/2003)
- Unemployment of parents with children under 18 (07/15/2003)
- Producer prices up in June (07/14/2003)
- Import prices rise in June (07/11/2003)
- Families and unemployment, 2002 (07/10/2003)
- Out-of-pocket medical spending: fee-for-service vs. HMO coverage (07/09/2003)
- Payroll employment in June (07/08/2003)
- Unemployment rate up in June (07/07/2003)
- Farm and service workers have highest poverty rates (07/03/2003)
- Entertainment expenditures, 2000 (07/02/2003)
- Working poor and education in 2001 (07/01/2003)
June 2003
- Unemployment rate 29.8 percent among recent dropouts (06/30/2003)
- Mass layoffs in May (06/27/2003)
- 2002 high school graduates and college enrollment (06/26/2003)
- Rate of working poor rises in 2001 (06/25/2003)
- Spending on necessities, 2000 (06/24/2003)
- Vehicle acquisition by age (06/23/2003)
- Real earnings in May (06/20/2003)
- Reasons for extended layoffs in first quarter 2003 (06/19/2003)
- Consumer prices unchanged in May (06/18/2003)
- Producer prices decline again in May (06/16/2003)
- Import prices drop, export prices rise in May (06/13/2003)
- Average compensation $22.37 per hour in private industry in March (06/12/2003)
- More changes to Current Employment Statistics (06/11/2003)
- Labor force, employment, and unemployment in May (06/10/2003)
- New classifications of payroll employment (06/09/2003)
- When relative wages depend on where you are (06/06/2003)
- First-quarter productivity growth revised upward (06/05/2003)
- Occupational variation in computer use (06/04/2003)
- Do occupational wages vary much by location? (06/03/2003)
- Larger rise in spending on housing in 2001 (06/02/2003)
May 2003
- Mass layoffs in April (05/30/2003)
- Assessing the 1988-2000 employment growth projections (05/29/2003)
- Accuracy of growth projections for health care occupations (05/28/2003)
- Lump-sum retirement (05/27/2003)
- When the future becomes the past: 1988-2000 projections for large occupations (05/23/2003)
- Spending on food—at home and away (05/22/2003)
- Changes in import prices vary by locality of origin (05/21/2003)
- Real earnings in April (05/20/2003)
- Consumer prices fall 0.3 percent from March to April (05/19/2003)
- Producer prices down sharply in April (05/16/2003)
- Import prices drop in April (05/15/2003)
- Food inflation more palatable in 2002 (05/14/2003)
- Productivity jump for nonfinancial corporations in 2002 (05/13/2003)
- Compensation growth most rapid in Midwest over the year (05/12/2003)
- Energy prices up and down in recent years (05/09/2003)
- Rise in manufacturing productivity in first quarter (05/08/2003)
- Benefit, wage costs for State and local government workers in first quarter of 2003 (05/07/2003)
- Payroll employment in April (05/06/2003)
- Employment, unemployment up in April (05/05/2003)
- Productivity up in first quarter (05/02/2003)
- Mass layoffs in March (05/01/2003)
April 2003
- Employment costs rose 1.4 percent from December to March (04/30/2003)
- Regional variation in employment in 2001 (04/29/2003)
- Shelter inflation in 2002 (04/28/2003)
- Clothing prices fall again in 2002 (04/25/2003)
- Wage gains in the third quarter of 2002 (04/24/2003)
- Women’s earnings up relative to men’s in 2002 (04/23/2003)
- Real earnings in March (04/22/2003)
- Extended mass layoffs in 2002 (04/21/2003)
- Weekly earnings in the first quarter of 2003 (04/18/2003)
- Consumer prices up 0.3 percent in March (04/17/2003)
- Another rise in medical care inflation (04/16/2003)
- Biggest drop in consumer durables prices since 1930s (04/15/2003)
- Producer prices up again in March (04/14/2003)
- Import prices up modestly in March (04/11/2003)
- Fewer mass layoffs in 2002 (04/10/2003)
- First drop in multifactor productivity since 1991 (04/09/2003)
- Payrolls down in March (04/08/2003)
- Unemployment rate in March 2003 (04/07/2003)
- Longest work absences result from repetitive motion (04/04/2003)
- Employment gains in real estate in 2002 (04/03/2003)
- Sources of lost-worktime injuries and illnesses in 2001 (04/02/2003)
- Women’s earnings up relative to men’s in 2002 (04/01/2003)
March 2003
- Lost-worktime injuries by age (03/31/2003)
- Jobs with the most lost-time injuries (03/28/2003)
- Health services had biggest employment gain in 2002 (03/27/2003)
- Women’s unemployment rate rose less than men’s in 2002 (03/26/2003)
- Real average weekly earnings down in February (03/25/2003)
- Consumer prices in February (03/24/2003)
- First NAICS-based monthly State and area employment numbers (03/21/2003)
- Private-industry compensation averages $22.14 per hour in December (03/20/2003)
- All education levels affected by recent unemployment rise (03/19/2003)
- Length of work stoppages in 2002 (03/18/2003)
- Producer prices rise again in February (03/17/2003)
- Import prices up again in February (03/14/2003)
- Workers idled by work stoppages at historic low (03/13/2003)
- Fewer major work stoppages in 2002 (03/12/2003)
- Unemployment in February 2003 (03/11/2003)
- Fall in payroll employment in February (03/10/2003)
- Upward revision of fourth-quarter productivity growth (03/07/2003)
- Advantages from an associate degree (03/06/2003)
- Drops in employment-population ratios in most States (03/05/2003)
- Highest unemployment rate in 2002: Alaska (03/04/2003)
- South Dakota had lowest unemployment rate in 2002 (03/03/2003)
February 2003
- Age and unionization rates, 2002 (02/28/2003)
- Productivity declines in Canadian, Japanese, and U.S. factories in 2001 (02/27/2003)
- Union membership in private industry, 2002 (02/26/2003)
- Most doctoral grads work outside of academia (02/25/2003)
- Consumer prices in January (02/24/2003)
- Producer prices increase in January (02/21/2003)
- Productivity growth slower in two-thirds of newly measured service industries (02/20/2003)
- Rapid productivity growth in prepackaged software industry (02/19/2003)
- Import prices advance in January (02/14/2003)
- Contributions to wholesale-trade productivity growth (02/13/2003)
- Drop in unit labor costs in manufacturing last year (02/12/2003)
- Rise in payroll employment in January (02/11/2003)
- Jobless rate drops to 5.7 percent in January 2003 (02/10/2003)
- Productivity down in fourth quarter (02/07/2003)
- Third-quarter productivity growth revised upward (02/06/2003)
- Most 16- to 18-year-old students work in school year and summer (02/06/2003)
- Common occupations for 16-year-olds: cashiers and cooks (02/05/2003)
- Wages and salaries increase fastest in Midwest over the year (02/04/2003)
- Wages and benefit costs for State and local government workers at end of 2002 (02/03/2003)
January 2003
- Employment costs advanced 0.7 percent from September to December (01/31/2003)
- Reasons for unemployment in 2002 (01/30/2003)
- Part-time for economic reasons (01/29/2003)
- Farm jobs and managerial positions have lowest absence rate (01/28/2003)
- Unemployment spells lengthened in 2002 (01/27/2003)
- Largest establishments most common in education and health services, manufacturing (01/24/2003)
- Moonlighting across the U.S. (01/23/2003)
- Small establishments employ majority of private industry workers (01/22/2003)
- Weekly earnings in the fourth quarter (01/21/2003)
- Consumer prices in December (01/17/2003)
- Producer prices unchanged in December (01/16/2003)
- Import prices up in December (01/15/2003)
- Unemployment rate unchanged in December (01/14/2003)
- Payroll employment down in December (01/13/2003)
- Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers (01/10/2003)
- Consumer spending and job growth (01/09/2003)
- Wage gains in the second quarter of 2002 (01/08/2003)
- ECI and Medicare payments (01/06/2003)
- Incidence of injuries with days away from work down again in 2001 (01/03/2003)
- Organizations for which volunteers work (01/02/2003)
