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“What is The Editor's Desk?”

We're glad you asked. Each business day, The Editor's Desk:

  • brings fresh information from all over the Bureau of Labor Statistics right to your computer screen
  • highlights intriguing BLS data that you might otherwise have missed
  • focuses on one or two specific points of a report rather than presenting a general summary
  • provides links to further analysis at the bottom of each story
  • gives you a way to send us your feedback about The Editor's Desk.

We think that if you give The Editor's Desk a few minutes a day, within a week you'll sound pretty clever about economics, within a month you will be extremely well-informed about the economy, and within a year you will be broadly educated in economic statistics and labor economics.

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The Editor's Desk Staff

Editor-in-chief: Michael D. Levi
Managing Editor: Emily Liddel
Executive producer: Douglas Himes
Contributing editors: Lawrence H. Leith, Ann Norris, Demetrio Scopelliti, James Titkemeyer
Web production: Lee-Anne Clarke 

T.E.D. Web Design Team Members (Past and Present): Richard M. Devens, Kate Donohue, Michael Horton, Mary Jablonski, Charles J. Muhl, Daniel Murphy, William Parks II, James Power, Catharine Stewart and Jo-Ann Yu

 

Of interest

Spotlight on Statistics: The Recession of 2007–2009

The most recent recession in the United States began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, though many of the statistics that describe the U.S. economy have yet to return to their pre-recession values. In this Spotlight, we present BLS data that compare the recent recession to previous recessions. Read more »