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2004 Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk (in chronological order)

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)
Real earnings in October 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)
Extended mass layoffs down in second quarter of 2004 (11/18/2004)
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)
Rate of working poor in 2002 (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)
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)
Declines in labor costs among service-producing industries (09/27/2004)
Long-term gains in mining productivity (09/27/2004)
Productivity in retail trade, 2003 (09/27/2004)
Productivity rises in most information-sector industries (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)
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)
Recently discharged vets and unemployment (07/27/2004)
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)
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)