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

Archived articles from The Editor's Desk
—Chronological archives: 2007

December 2007

• Self-employment in 2016 (12/31/07)
• Occupations losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (12/28/07)
• Duration of unemployment, 2006 (12/27/07)
• Layoffs in November (12/26/07)

• Real average weekly earnings, November 2007 (12/21/07)
• Work experience, 2006 (12/20/07)
• Industries with the most new jobs, 2006-16 (12/19/07)
• Spending on cell phone services now almost the same as residential phone services spending (12/18/07)
• Consumer prices in November 2007 (12/17/07)

• PPI in November 2007 (12/14/07)
• Import prices in November (12/13/07)
• Job openings by industry, October 2007 (12/12/07)
• Payroll employment in November 2007 (12/11/07)
• Unemployment rate in November 2007 (12/10/07)

• Occupations with the largest projected job growth, 2006-16 (12/07/07)
• Productivity growth in third quarter revised upward (12/06/07)
• Labor force projected at 164.2 million by 2016 (12/05/07)
• Differences in women's earnings by educational level, 2006 (12/04/07)
• Labor force participation rate of mothers, 1975-2006 (12/03/07)

November 2007

• Wives who earn more than their husbands, 1987-2005 (11/30/07)
• Creative arts employment in New York and Los Angeles (11/29/07)
• Auto parts industry employment trends in the Midwest, 1992-2006 (11/28/07)
• Distribution of days away from work due to workplace injuries and illnesses, 2006 (11/27/07)
• Value of quality changes for 2008 passenger cars and light trucks (11/26/07)

• Layoffs in October 2007 (11/23/07)
• Real earnings in October (11/21/07)
• Job losses and gains by industry, first quarter of 2007 (11/20/07)
• Extended mass layoffs in the third quarter of 2007 (11/19/07)
• CPI in October 2007 (11/16/07)

• PPI in October 2007 (11/15/07)
• Export prices in October 2007 (11/14/07)
• Import prices in October 2007 (11/13/07)
• Injuries and illness resulting in days away from work by age in 2006 (11/09/07)
• Productivity in third quarter 2007 (11/08/07)

• Quits rates in September 2006 and September 2007 (11/07/07)
• Unemployment in October 2007 (11/06/07)
• October 2007 payroll employment (11/05/07)
• Compensation costs in State and local government, September 2007 (11/02/07)
• Employment costs in private industry, September 2007 (11/01/07)

October 2007

• Employment of women, by industry (10/31/07)
• Multiple jobholding in 2006 (10/30/07)

• Consumer expenditures in 2006 (10/29/07)
• Occupational injuries and illnesses and establishment size (10/26/07)
• Employment and wages by occupation for nonmetropolitan areas (10/25/07)
• Layoffs by region in September 2007 (10/24/07)
• Employment growth and decline by county, March 2006-2007 (10/23/07)

• Counties with highest wage growth, first quarter 2007 (10/22/07)
• Usual weekly earnings by educational attainment and sex (10/19/07)
• Consumer prices in September 2007 (10/18/07)
• Decline in injuries and illnesses rates continued in 2006 (10/17/07)
• Export prices in September 2007 (10/16/07)

• Producer prices in September 2007 (10/15/07)
• Import prices up in September 2007 (10/12/07)
• Job openings rate in August 2007 (10/11/07)
• Payrolls in September 2007 (10/10/07)
• Unemployment in September 2007 (10/09/07)

• Earnings in air travel jobs (10/05/07)
• Employment in air travel jobs (10/04/07)
• Flexible work and part-time jobs (10/03/07)
• Unit labor costs in manufacturing dropped most in 2006 in Japan (10/02/07)
• Health educators (10/01/07)

September 2007

• International factory productivity gains in 2006 (09/28/07)
• Comparisons of pay between metropolitan areas, 2006 (09/27/07)
• Working as a cobbler (09/26/07)
• Private industry compensation $25.93 per hour on average in June 2007 (09/25/07)

• Layoffs in August 2007 (09/24/07)
• Real earnings in August (09/21/07)
• CPI in August 2007 (09/20/07)
• PPI in August 2007 (09/19/07)
• Export prices up in August 2007 (09/18/07)

• Import prices down in August 2007 (09/17/07)
• Security guard employment after 2001 (09/14/07)
• Railroad-related work fatalities (09/13/07)
• Hires and separations in July 2007 (09/12/07)
• Unemployment rate in August 2007 (09/11/07)

• Payroll employment in August 2007 (09/10/07)
• Second-quarter productivity growth revised upward (09/07/07)
• Fatal on-the-job highway incidents in 2006 (09/06/07)
• Prices received by domestic producers of cars and light trucks, 2006 (09/05/07)
• Food PPI in 2006 (09/04/07)

August 2007

• Gross job gains and losses by State (08/31/07)
• Leave benefits in 2007 (08/30/07)
• Productivity growth in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places, 2006 (08/29/07)

• Unemployment among youth, Summer 2007 (08/28/07)
• Summer 2007 labor force participation of youth (08/27/07)
• Layoffs by region in July 2007 (08/24/07)
• Health care plans in 2007 (08/23/07)
• Multifactor productivity in detailed manufacturing industries (08/22/07)

• Average weekly earnings, July 2007 (08/21/07)
• Age and fatal work injuries in 2006 (08/20/07)
• Job losses and gains in the fourth quarter of 2006 (08/17/07)
• CPI in July 2007 (08/16/07)
• PPI in July 2007 (08/15/07)

• Workplace homicides declined in 2006 (08/14/07)
• Import prices in July 2007 (08/13/07)
• Fatal work injuries in 2006 (08/10/07)
• Job openings by industry, June 2007 (08/09/07)
• Productivity in second quarter 2007 (08/08/07)

• Unemployment rates by demographics, July 2007 (08/07/07)
• Payroll employment in July (08/06/07)
• Medical care inflation in 2006 (08/03/07)
• Wages and salaries in constant dollars increase from June 2006 to June 2007 (08/02/07)
• Employment costs in private industry, June 2007 (08/01/07)

July 2007

• Apparel prices up in 2006 (07/31/07)

• Energy prices in 2006 (07/30/07)
• Counties with highest wage growth, fourth quarter 2006 (07/27/07)
• Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, December 2005-2006 (07/26/07)
• Employment concentration in automotive industries (07/25/07)
• Real earnings in June (07/24/07)

• Layoffs in June 2007 (07/23/07)
• Weekly earnings in second quarter 2007 by demographics (07/20/07)
• CPI in June 2007 (07/19/07)
• Producer prices in June 2007 (07/18/07)
• Export prices in June 2007 (07/17/07)

• Import prices in June 2007 (07/16/07)
• Working at home in 2006 (07/13/07)
• Employment in managing offices, June 2006 (07/12/07)
• Job openings in May 2007 (07/11/07)
• June 2007 payroll employment (07/10/07)

• Unemployment rate in June 2007 (07/09/07)
• Health benefit costs by region (07/06/07)
• Variation in worker earnings by establishment size and industry, June 2006 (07/05/07)
• Household activities in 2006 (07/03/07)
• Average hours of work of men and women, 2006 (07/02/07)

June 2007

• The average day, 2006 (06/29/07)

• "STEM" occupations and job growth (06/28/07)
• Variation in worker earnings by occupation, June 2006 (06/27/07)
• Small and large firms and job growth (06/26/07)
• Mass layoff events in May 2007 (06/25/07)
• Health benefit costs and establishment size, March 2007 (06/22/07)

• Industry employment trends in 2006 (06/21/07)
• Recovery after Hurricane Katrina (06/20/07)
• Real earnings in May (06/19/07)
• CPI in May 2007 (06/18/07)
• PPI in May 2007 (06/15/07)

• New export price index for education (06/14/07)
• Job openings in April 2007 (06/13/07)
• Change in employment by major occupation and sex, 2005-06 (06/12/07)
• Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2005 (06/11/07)
• Manufacturing multifactor productivity in 2005 (06/08/07)

• Downward revision of first-quarter productivity growth (06/07/07)
• Time use of married women with young children (06/06/07)
• Unemployment rates by demographics, May 2007 (06/05/07)
• Payroll employment by industry, May 2007 (06/04/07)
• College students and time use, 2003-2005 (06/01/07)

May 2007

• Leisure time and older Americans (05/31/07)
• Workplace injuries and illnesses among mechanics (05/30/07)

• Employment in office and administrative support occupations, 2006 (05/29/07)
• Multifactor productivity, 1996-2006 (05/25/07)
• Mass layoffs in April 2007 (05/24/07)
• Real earnings in April (05/23/07)
• Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2006 (05/22/07)

• Gross job gains and losses: third quarter 2006 (05/21/07)
• Highest paid registered nurses are in California (05/18/07)
• Extended mass layoffs in the first quarter of 2007 (05/17/07)
• CPI in April 2007 (05/16/07)
• Families and unemployment, 2006 (05/15/07)

• Producer prices in April 2007 (05/14/07)
• Import prices in April (05/11/07)
• Married-couple families and employment, 2006 (05/10/07)
• Job openings by industry in March (05/09/07)
• April 2007 payroll employment (05/08/07)

• Unemployment in April 2007 (05/07/07)
• Productivity in first quarter 2007 (05/04/07)
• Foreign-born workers by region, 2006 (05/03/07)
• Recent high school graduates and labor force participation (05/02/07)
• Foreign-born workers by occupation, 2006 (05/01/07)

April 2007

• Employment costs in private industry, March 2007 (04/30/07)

• 2006 high school grads and college enrollment (04/27/07)
• Foreign-born workers and unemployment, 2006 (04/26/07)
• Married mothers of infants and labor force participation (04/25/07)
• Real earnings, March 2007 (04/24/07)
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance due to mass layoffs, March 2007 (04/23/07)

• Productivity in manufacturing industries, 2005 (04/20/07)
• Weekly earnings in the first quarter of 2007 (04/19/07)
• CPI in March (04/18/07)
• Wage growth by county, third quarter 2005-2006 (04/17/07)
• PPI in March 2007 (04/16/07)

• Import prices in March 2007 (04/13/07)
• Employment growth and decline by county, September 2005-2006 (04/12/07)
• Quits as a percentage of separations (04/11/07)
• March 2007 payroll employment (04/10/07)
• Unemployment rate in March 2007 (04/09/07)

• Employer costs for legally required benefits, December 2006 (04/06/07)
• Health savings accounts (04/05/07)
• Flexible benefits and reimbursement accounts (04/04/07)
• Educational attainment at age 19 (04/03/07)
• Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2006 (04/02/07)

March 2007

• Private industry compensation $25.67 per hour on average in December 2006 (03/30/07)
• Transportation expenditures in 2005 (03/29/07)

• Employment of 18- and 19-year-olds not enrolled in school (03/28/07)
• Housing expenditures in 2005 (03/27/07)
• Multifactor productivity in nonfarm business, 2005 (03/26/07)
• Mass layoffs up in February (03/23/07)
• 2005-06 changes in State unemployment rates (03/22/07)

• Food expenditures in 2005 (03/21/07)
• Real average weekly earnings, February 2007 (03/20/07)
• CPI in February (03/19/07)
• Producer prices in February 2007 (03/16/07)
• Import prices in February 2007 (03/15/07)

• Job openings rates by industry in January 2007 (03/14/07)
• Unemployment rate in February 2007 (03/13/07)
• Payroll employment, February 2007 (03/12/07)
• Unit labor costs in fourth quarter of 2006 (03/09/07)
• Days of idleness due to major work stoppages up in 2006 (03/08/07)

• Fourth-quarter productivity growth revised downward (03/07/07)
• States with highest unemployment rates in 2006 (03/06/07)
• Lowest State unemployment rates in 2006 (03/05/07)
• Working as a floral designer (03/02/07)
• Duration of major work stoppages beginning in 2006 (03/01/07)

February 2007

• Fewer workers idled by work stoppages in 2006 (02/28/07)
• Korea, Taiwan had biggest factory productivity gains in 2005 (02/27/07)
• Layoffs in January 2007 (02/26/07)
• Real earnings in January (02/23/07)

• CPI in January (02/22/07)
• Training animals for a living (02/21/07)
• PPI in January 2007 (02/20/07)
• Import prices in January 2007 (02/16/07)
• Job growth by firm size: second quarter 2006 (02/15/07)

• Extended mass layoffs, 2006 (02/14/07)
• Length of unemployment, 2005 (02/13/07)
• Work experience of men and women in 2005 (02/12/07)
• Union membership by industry, 2006 (02/09/07)
• Productivity growth in 2006 (02/08/07)

• Job openings and labor turnover in 2006 (02/07/07)
• Unemployment rates by demographics, January 2007 (02/06/07)
• Payroll employment in January 2007 (02/05/07)
• Compensation costs in State and local government, September-December 2006 (02/02/07)
• Compensation costs in private industry up 3.2 percent in 2006 (02/01/07)

January 2007

• Fairfax County and growth of professional and business services jobs in Washington, DC area (01/31/07)
• Union membership by State, 2006 (01/30/07)
• Earnings and education in the fourth quarter of 2006 (01/29/07)
• Union membership in 2006 (01/26/07)
• Layoffs in December 2006 (01/25/07)

• States with lowest unemployment rates in December 2006 (01/24/07)
• Volunteer rates in 2006 (01/23/07)
• Real average weekly earnings, December 2005-December 2006 (01/22/07)
• CPI up 2.5 percent in 2006 (01/19/07)
• Producer prices in December 2006 (01/18/07)

• Fastest growth and decline in employment by county, June 2005-2006 (01/17/07)
• Import prices in 2006 (01/16/07)
• Counties with highest wage growth, second quarter 2006 (01/12/07)
• How volunteers get their start (01/11/07)
• Changes in men's and women's labor force participation rates (01/10/07)

• Unemployment and labor force participation at the end of 2006 (01/09/07)
• Payroll employment up by 1.8 million in 2006 (01/08/07)
• Labor costs in China's manufacturing sector (01/05/07)
• Labor force growth: past, present, and future (01/04/07)
• Telemarketing centers in the U.S. (01/03/07)