(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Consumer expenditures
- Consumer spending patterns, 2008–2010 (10/06/2011)
- Overall consumer expenditures fall in 2010 (09/29/2011)
- Spending on mortgage interest payments and charges decreases from 2007 to 2009 (10/14/2010)
- Spending on housing and transportation falls in 2009 (10/07/2010)
- Consumer out-of-pocket health care expenditures in 2008 (03/25/2010)
- Pay off debt, spend, or save? The 2008 Economic Stimulus Payments (10/23/2009)
- Consumer expenditures in 2008 (10/08/2009)
- Housing expenditures in 2007 (04/27/2009)
- Changes in health care spending patterns of older Americans (01/05/2009)
- Consumer expenditures in 2007 (11/26/2008)
- Energy prices and expenditures in the South, 1984-2006 (05/30/2008)
- Spending on cell phone services now almost the same as residential phone services spending (12/18/2007)
- Consumer expenditures in 2006 (10/29/2007)
- Transportation expenditures in 2005 (03/29/2007)
- Housing expenditures in 2005 (03/27/2007)
- Food expenditures in 2005 (03/21/2007)
- Consumer expenditures in 2005 (11/09/2006)
- Asian households and spending on food at home (07/05/2006)
- Spending on apparel over the decades (05/31/2006)
- Spending on food: 1901 versus 2002-03 (05/26/2006)
- Spending on necessities, 1901 and 2002-03 (05/23/2006)
- Spending on food in 2004 (05/16/2006)
- Consumer expenditures in 2004 (11/30/2005)
- Healthcare spending in 2003 (07/08/2005)
- Expenditures on apparel down in 2003 (07/06/2005)
- Disposable income and consumption (05/17/2005)
- Consumer expenditures in 2003 (12/01/2004)
- Spending on food in 2002 (03/16/2004)
- Spending on entertainment in 2002 (12/05/2003)
- Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care (11/25/2003)
- Travel expenditures by age (11/04/2003)
- Changes in spending patterns among Hispanics (10/28/2003)
- Supply, demand, and consumer gasoline prices (10/08/2003)
- Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin (08/07/2003)
- Out-of-pocket medical spending: fee-for-service vs. HMO coverage (07/09/2003)
- Entertainment expenditures, 2000 (07/02/2003)
- Spending on necessities, 2000 (06/24/2003)
- Vehicle acquisition by age (06/23/2003)
- Spending on travel (06/17/2003)
- Larger rise in spending on housing in 2001 (06/02/2003)
- Spending on food—at home and away (05/22/2003)
- Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers (01/10/2003)
- Consumer spending and job growth (01/09/2003)
- Consumer health care spending in 2001 (12/10/2002)
- Spending drops on apparel in 2001 (12/04/2002)
- Singles’ similar purchasing probabilities (10/18/2002)
- Homeownership highest in Midwest and South (07/18/2002)
- Small rise in spending on food away from home in 2000 (05/30/2002)
- Elderly spend greatest share on housing (05/28/2002)
- Spending drops on entertainment, pensions and insurance (12/28/2001)
- Slower rise in out-of-pocket health care spending in 1999 (07/06/2001)
- Consumers spend more on apparel in 1999 (06/28/2001)
- Most poor consumers are single individuals (06/21/2001)
- Single parents allot higher share of spending to necessities in 1998 (06/19/2001)
- Consumers spend more in all categories in 1999 (01/02/2001)
- Consumer expenditures rise 4.2 percent in 1999 (12/22/2000)
- Teens with jobs-where does the money go? (11/01/2000)
- 65-and-over group gives most (09/25/2000)
- Food stamp households budget more of spending on basics (09/13/2000)
- Retirees spending more on health insurance (07/13/2000)
- Singles eat out more (07/11/2000)
- Public assistance and family characteristics (07/05/2000)
- Income and meals away from home (07/03/2000)
- Assistance recipients spend bigger share on basics (06/29/2000)
- Let's do lunch (06/28/2000)
- More seniors are mortgage free (06/27/2000)
- Consumers spend more on food away from home (04/07/2000)
- Distribution of consumer expenditures in 1998 (03/30/2000)
- Consumer expenditures rise modestly in 1998 (03/28/2000)
- Spending on food away from home up by 5.7 percent in 1998 (11/19/1999)
- Income and public transportation expenditures (10/08/1999)
- Mass transit and public transportation expenditures (10/01/1999)
- Airfare dominates public transportation expenditures (09/27/1999)
- Transportation the largest piece of pleasure travel spending (09/13/1999)
- Food, clothing, and shelter see different historical spending patterns (08/31/1999)
- Comparing food expenditures by income group (08/25/1999)
- Health insurance now accounts for biggest share of health care dollar (08/23/1999)
- Pension expenditures drop for all except highest income group (08/10/1999)
- How leased and owned vehicles stack up (08/09/1999)
- Consumers pay more for desired features (05/28/1999)
- Consumers in the South spend less on entertainment in 1997 (04/30/1999)
- Apparel spending down in 1997 (04/27/1999)
- Entertainment spending declines in 1997 (04/20/1999)
- Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s (04/05/1999)
- Expenditures for housing, personal insurance rise fastest in 1997 (04/01/1999)
- Transportation spending brakes in 1997 (03/23/1999)
- Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (03/16/1999)
- Spending on food differs by gender (03/09/1999)
- Expenditures on frozen foods, meat change considerably over 12-year period (02/26/1999)
- Consumer expenditures rise 3.0 percent in 1997 (12/24/1998)
- High income households allocate smaller expenditure shares to necessities (12/17/1998)
- Homeowner expenditures take more out of budgets in Northeast and West (12/15/1998)
- Higher share of consumer expenditures going to homeowner expenses (12/08/1998)
- Consumer expenditure rise largely attributable to discretionary spending (10/26/1998)
- Consumer expenditures rise at highest rate since 1989 (10/16/1998)
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.
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