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2013 Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk (in chronological order)

June 2013

CPI-U up 1.4 percent in 12 months (06/19/2013)
Labor force characteristics of persons with a disability in 2012 (06/18/2013)
Producer prices for finished goods rise 0.5 percent in May 2013 (06/17/2013)
Overall import prices down 1.9 percent over the year (06/14/2013)
Total employer costs for employee compensation $31.09 per hour worked in March 2013 (06/13/2013)
Job openings and the Beveridge curve, December 2000–April 2013 (06/12/2013)
Unemployment in May 2013 (06/11/2013)
Payroll employment up 175,000 in May 2013 (06/10/2013)
Consumer expenditures on food in 2011 (06/07/2013)
Inflation in Italy, 3.3 percent in 2012; in Switzerland, −0.8 percent (06/06/2013)
International comparisons of employment, 2007–2013 (06/05/2013)
Compensation highlights in trade, transportation, and utilities industries (06/04/2013)
U.S. natural gas production, 2007–2040 (06/03/2013)

May 2013

Productivity in selected service-providing and mining industries, 2011 (05/31/2013)
Employment and unemployment in large metropolitan areas, April 2013 (05/30/2013)
Household spending on pets (05/29/2013)
Labor force participation rates of the foreign born and native born, 2008–2012 (05/28/2013)
Growing demand for fertilizer keeps prices high (05/24/2013)
Mass layoffs in April 2013 (05/23/2013)
Barriers to employment for persons with a disability (05/22/2013)
State employment and unemployment, April 2013 (05/21/2013)
Real earnings increase in April (05/20/2013)
Consumer Price Index, April 2013 (05/17/2013)
Producer prices for finished goods decrease 0.7 percent in April 2013 (05/16/2013)
Import and export prices down in April 2013 (05/15/2013)
Extended mass layoff events and separations, first quarter 2013 (05/14/2013)
Union and nonunion wages, December 2011 (05/13/2013)
Happy Mother’s Day from BLS: working mothers in 2012 (05/10/2013)
Job openings, hires, and separations rates in March 2013 (05/09/2013)
Large firms gain 133,000 jobs during 3rd quarter of 2012 (05/08/2013)
Number of discouraged workers down by 133,000 from last year, April 2013 (05/07/2013)
Payroll employment up in April 2013 (05/06/2013)
Labor productivity, first quarter 2013 (05/03/2013)
Employment and unemployment in Mountain states metropolitan areas, March 2013 (05/02/2013)
Compensation costs in March 2013: state and local government workers (05/01/2013)

April 2013

Employment characteristics of families, 2012 (04/30/2013)
Employment growth in oil-producing counties in the Bakken Formation, 2007–2011 (04/29/2013)
Medical and retirement benefits, March 2012 (04/26/2013)
Mass layoffs in March 2013 (04/25/2013)
Unemployment by state, March 2013 (04/24/2013)
North Dakota has largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment among states, March 2013 (04/23/2013)
48.8 percent of recent high school graduates in labor force (04/22/2013)
Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, first quarter 2013 (04/19/2013)
Real earnings in March 2013 (04/18/2013)
Consumer Price Index, March 2012 to March 2013 (04/17/2013)
Employee contributions to medical care benefits costs (04/16/2013)
Producer prices up 1.1 percent for the 12 months ended March 2013 (04/15/2013)
U.S. import prices down over the year ending March 2013; export prices up slightly (04/12/2013)
Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, February 2013 (04/11/2013)
Job openings in February 2013 (04/10/2013)
Duration of unemployment in March 2013 (04/09/2013)
Employment in March 2013 (04/08/2013)
The job market for recent college graduates in the United States (04/05/2013)
Employment and wages for newly defined occupations, May 2012 (04/04/2013)
State unemployment rates in February 2013 (04/03/2013)
State employment in February 2013 (04/02/2013)
Employment in green good and services, 2011 (04/01/2013)

March 2013

Employment in 10 largest counties (03/29/2013)
Labor productivity and unit labor costs among manufacturing industries, 2011 (03/28/2013)
Mass layoffs in February 2013 (03/27/2013)
Metropolitan area unemployment, January 2013 (03/26/2013)
Minimum wage workers account for 4.7 percent of hourly paid workers in 2012 (03/25/2013)
Unemployment among veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces declines in 2012 (03/22/2013)
Employer costs for employee compensation, December 2012 (03/21/2013)
States with lower-than-national unemployment rates (03/20/2013)
Real earnings in February 2013 (03/19/2013)
Consumer Price Index, February 2012 to February 2013 (03/18/2013)
Producer prices up 1.7 percent for the 12 months ended February 2013 (03/15/2013)
Import and export prices up 1.1 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively, in February 2013 (03/14/2013)
Annual hires and separations, 2012 (03/13/2013)
Unemployment rate by major worker group, February 2013 (03/12/2013)
Payroll employment up in February 2013 (03/11/2013)
International unemployment rates, January 2013 (03/08/2013)
Young adult employment varies by education (03/07/2013)
Gold prices rise more than 100 percent since 2008 (03/05/2013)
Annual average unemployment rates declined in 2013 (03/04/2013)
Expenditures of urban and rural households in 2011 (03/01/2013)

February 2013

Consumer Prices, 1913 and 2013 (02/28/2013)
Mass layoffs in January 2013 (02/27/2013)
Volunteering declines in 2012 (02/26/2013)
Real earnings in January 2013 (02/25/2013)
Consumer Price Index up 1.6 percent from January 2012 to January 2013 (02/22/2013)
Producer prices in January 2013 (02/21/2013)
Mortgage delinquency and foreclosure among youngest baby boomers (02/20/2013)
Illness-related work absences in January 2013 highest since February 2008 (02/19/2013)
Extended mass layoffs, fourth quarter 2012 (02/15/2013)
Import prices fall 1.3 percent, export prices rise 1.1 percent, January 2012–January 2013 (02/14/2013)
Job openings, hires, and separations in December 2012 (02/13/2013)
International gross domestic product (GDP) comparisons, 2011 (02/12/2013)
19 major work stoppages and 1.1 million days idle in 2012 (02/11/2013)
Productivity, output, and hours worked, fourth quarter 2012 (02/08/2013)
Employment change by firm size, second quarter of 2012 (02/07/2013)
Compensation costs increased in December 2012 (02/06/2013)
Unemployment rate 7.9 percent in January (02/05/2013)
Payroll employment in January 2013 (02/04/2013)
Metropolitan area unemployment, December 2012 (02/01/2013)

January 2013

Metropolitan division employment, December 2012 (01/31/2013)
Gross job gains and losses, second quarter of 2012 (01/30/2013)
Fatal work injuries in mining in 2010 (01/29/2013)
Mass layoffs in 2012 (01/28/2013)
International unemployment rates, November 2012 (01/25/2013)
Union membership declines in 2012 (01/24/2013)
Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2012 (01/23/2013)
Texas has largest over-the-year employment increase; Nevada has largest unemployment rate decrease (01/22/2013)
Real earnings up again in December 2012 (01/18/2013)
Consumer Price Index increases 1.7 percent in 2012 (01/17/2013)
Producer prices in December 2012 (01/16/2013)
Travel expenditures during the recent recession, 2005–2011 (01/15/2013)
U.S. import prices by country of origin, December 2012 (01/14/2013)
Job openings in November 2012 (01/11/2013)
Large county employment, June 2012 (01/10/2013)
Employment and unemployment in large metropolitan areas, November 2012 (01/09/2013)
Unemployment by sex and age, December 2012 (01/08/2013)
Employment in December 2012 (01/07/2013)
Reasons for extended mass layoffs, 2009–2011 (01/04/2013)
The last private industry pension plans (01/03/2013)
Women’s earnings by occupation, 2011 (01/02/2013)