Archive By Month

Highlighting Some of the Contributions of the Women of BLS(03/26/2024)

More than a Century of Occupational Changes among African American Workers(02/27/2024)

In Memory of Katherine Wallman(01/31/2024)

Welcome Commissioner McEntarfer!(01/25/2024)

Farewell 2023, Greetings 2024(12/27/2023)

BLS Celebrates Festivus!(12/14/2023)

Understanding the Math behind Recent Inflation Trends(12/11/2023)

Celebrating National Family Caregivers Month with BLS Data(11/30/2023)

New Triangle Fire Memorial in NY Pays Tribute to Lives Lost from Unsafe Working Conditions(11/06/2023)

Expanded data for detailed Hispanic or Latino groups now available(10/06/2023)

Finding current events in the data — a look at strikes among writers and actors(09/26/2023)

Metamorphosis of Import and Export Price Measurement(09/13/2023)

BLS Now Publishing Monthly and Quarterly Labor Force Data for Detailed Asian Groups(09/01/2023)

Looking at the Growing Productivity of American Workers for Labor Day(08/31/2023)

Come Fly with BLS(08/23/2023)

Fire and Ice: What Do We Know about Jobs Involving Exposure to Outdoor Elements?(08/22/2023)

Celebrating National Nonprofit Day with BLS Data(08/15/2023)

Celebrating United States Independence and Statistical Independence(06/29/2023)

Labor Force Trends of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders(05/11/2023)

Ensuring Accuracy of Electricity Prices in the Consumer Price Index(04/28/2023)

What Is BLS Doing to Maintain Data Quality as Response Rates Decline?(03/24/2023)

Commissioner Beach Reflects on the Future of Statistics(03/15/2023)

Tracking Employer Costs for Wages and Benefits(02/22/2023)

More Ways to Look at Wages and Inflation(02/13/2023)

Projecting Employment during Pandemic Recovery(02/02/2023)

Looking at Recent Price Increases for Baby Food(01/19/2023)

Weight (wait) up! Increasing the Relevance of Consumer Price Index Weights(01/10/2023)

A Look at Thanksgiving Food Prices in 1947 and Today(11/21/2022)

Labor Market Dynamics during the COVID‐19 Pandemic(11/15/2022)

What Baseball Statistics and BLS Productivity Statistics Have in Common(10/28/2022)

Measuring Business Response to COVID‐19 and Other Labor Market Developments(09/20/2022)

BLS Now Publishing Monthly Data for Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders and People of Two or More Races(09/02/2022)

Remembering Dale Jorgenson(08/24/2022)

Learning about the Producer Price Index Special Groupings(08/16/2022)

Catching up on Recent BLS Activities(07/28/2022)

Update to the CareerInfo Mobile App Now Available(07/07/2022)

Inflation, as Seen through the Bake Shop Window(06/02/2022)

Employment Trends of Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders(05/25/2022)

A Blueprint for Modernizing the Consumer Price Index(05/24/2022)

Measuring Changes in Shelter Prices in the Consumer Price Index(05/20/2022)

Measuring Consumer Prices for New Vehicles More Accurately(05/09/2022)

How Timing and World Events Affect Price Statistics(04/26/2022)

Has the Labor Market Recovered from the COVID‐19 Pandemic?(04/07/2022)

Celebrating Women’s History Month with BLS Data(03/17/2022)

What’s Going on with the Large Revisions in Seasonally Adjusted Employment Estimates?(02/28/2022)

Celebrating African American History Month(02/25/2022)

BLS Now Publishing Monthly Data for American Indians and Alaska Natives(02/14/2022)

What Have You Been Looking for on the BLS Website?(01/31/2022)

Answers to Some Recent Questions about BLS Data(12/21/2021)

Spend Thanksgiving Day with BLS!(11/19/2021)

Expanding BLS Data on Total Factor Productivity(11/05/2021)

BLS Data in More Than a Century of Pictures(09/27/2021)

It’s a Small Statistical World(09/21/2021)

A Labor Day Look at How American Workers Have Changed over 40 Years(09/01/2021)

A Look at the Price of Construction(08/26/2021)

The Latest on Improving the Accuracy of the Consumer Price Index(08/19/2021)

Reflecting on Our Recent Price Data User Conference(08/16/2021)

BLS at the Olympics(07/29/2021)

Making Sense of Job Openings and Other Labor Market Measures(07/26/2021)

Brood X Cicadas over the History of BLS Data(06/30/2021)

Employment Trends of Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders(05/24/2021)

A New Tool at BLS: Video Data Collection Interview(05/18/2021)

Providing Context for Recent Increases in Gasoline Prices(04/29/2021)

Improving Key Labor Market Estimates during the Pandemic and Beyond(04/19/2021)

Celebrating Women’s History Month with a Look at Women in the Labor Force(03/30/2021)

Productivity Perspective of the 2020 COVID‐19 Pandemic(03/05/2021)

On the Importance of Maintaining—and Sometimes Changing—Official Historical Records(02/24/2021)

Looking Back on the 2020 U.S. Labor Market and Economy(02/18/2021)

A Truckload of Transportation Statistics(01/21/2021)

Measuring Employment across the Supply and Output Chain(01/07/2021)

The Challenges of Seasonal Adjustment during the COVID‐19 Pandemic(12/21/2020)

Innovations at BLS during the COVID‐19 Pandemic(11/24/2020)

Celebrating World Statistics Day 2020(10/20/2020)

Increasing Access and Opportunity: Using Quality Data to Inform Evidence‐Based Policy(10/15/2020)

How Much Does a Cup of Coffee Cost? It’s Complicated(09/28/2020)

A Closer Look at Recent Employment Trends(09/17/2020)

Labor Day 2020 Fast Facts(09/04/2020)

New Measures of How Widespread Employment Changes Are across States and Metro Areas(08/19/2020)

New Recommendations on Improving Data on Contingent and Alternative Work Arrangements(08/10/2020)

Update on the Misclassification that Affected the Unemployment Rate(06/29/2020)

New State and Metropolitan Area Data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey(06/16/2020)

How Many Unemployed People? Comparing Survey Data and Unemployment Insurance Counts(06/03/2020)

Improving How We Measure Prices for New Vehicles(05/29/2020)

When Worlds Converge: Statistics Agencies Learning from Each Other during the Pandemic(05/14/2020)

Paid Leave Benefits When You Are Unable to Work(04/22/2020)

How Have We Improved the Consumer Price Index? Let Me Count the Ways(04/07/2020)

State Productivity: A BLS Production(03/03/2020)

How We Collect Data When People Don’t Answer the Phone(02/19/2020)

Projected Occupational Openings: Where Do They Come From?(02/05/2020)

You Paid HOW MUCH for a Ticket to the Game?(01/28/2020)

Ensuring Security and Fairness in the Release of Economic Statistics(01/23/2020)

Planning BLS Strategy for 2025 and Beyond(01/07/2020)

Why This Counts: Measuring Industry Productivity(01/03/2020)

Improving the Accuracy of the Consumer Price Index(12/20/2019)

Meet Our New Science and Technology Fellow at BLS(12/16/2019)

New Data on Balancing Family Needs with Work(12/05/2019)

New Data on Employment and Wages in U.S. Establishments with Foreign Ownership(10/31/2019)

Modernizing BLS News Releases for the Next Generation(10/25/2019)

Did You Know Official Unemployment Estimates Are NOT from Unemployment Insurance Counts?(10/17/2019)

New App for Career Information Now Available(10/09/2019)

BLS Learns from Civic Digital Fellows(09/18/2019)

Let’s Celebrate the Productive U.S. Workforce(09/11/2019)

Labor Day 2019 Fast Facts(08/29/2019)

What is “Benchmarking” of Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Data?(08/21/2019)

Building a Business? Start Here(08/16/2019)

Why This Counts: Measuring Occupational Requirements(08/07/2019)

Baseball, Hot Dogs, and Statistics(07/31/2019)

New State Data on Labor Productivity and Job Openings and Labor Turnover(07/24/2019)

Why This Counts: 10 Million U.S. Establishments for the First Time(06/19/2019)

Improved Mapping Tool for Local Area Unemployment Statistics(06/07/2019)

How Are Our Older Workers Doing?(05/20/2019)

Wage Information Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow(05/06/2019)

Earth Day 2019: Careers that Care for Our Earth(04/19/2019)

BLS Local Data App Now Available for Android Devices(04/17/2019)

Greetings and a Meditation on Alan Krueger(04/09/2019)

Passing the Baton to the New BLS Commissioner(03/28/2019)

Why This Counts: What Do We Know about Strikes and Lockouts?(03/13/2019)

Celebrating Women in STEM Occupations(03/06/2019)

What Happened to Natural Gas Prices at the End of 2018?(03/01/2019)

Wages and Benefits in a City Near You(02/22/2019)

Tracking the Changing Nature of Work: the Process Continues(02/12/2019)

What Do We Know about Mega Metros?(01/23/2019)

Celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table(01/16/2019)

Why This Counts: What Types of Jobs Are in the U.S. Labor Market?(01/08/2019)

New Measures of Prices for Global Trade(11/15/2018)

Why This Counts: What Does the Future Hold for the Workforce?(11/02/2018)

Making It Easier to Find Data on Pay and Benefits(10/24/2018)

New BLS Local Data App Now Available(10/18/2018)

Why This Counts: Breaking Down Multifactor Productivity(10/11/2018)

Celebrating Our Teachers on World Teachers’ Day!(10/04/2018)

BLS Measures Electronically Mediated Work(09/28/2018)

Digging Deeper into the Details about the Unemployed(09/21/2018)

The Griswold Family Vacation through the Lens of BLS Data(09/12/2018)

Labor Day 2018 Fast Facts(08/31/2018)

How Hazardous are Summer Jobs for Our Young Workers?(08/28/2018)

A Clearer Look at Response Rates in BLS Surveys(08/22/2018)

Why This Counts: Tracking Workers over Time(07/30/2018)

Why This Counts: What are the U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes?(07/12/2018)

Ensuring Gold‐Standard Data in the Eye of a Storm(06/14/2018)

BLS Big Data Delivers Hurricane Flood Zone Maps(06/07/2018)

Using Seasonally Adjusted Data or Not: a Case Study(05/25/2018)

Local Unemployment: How’s My State Doing?(05/11/2018)

Small Businesses: This is for YOU!(05/01/2018)

Earth‐friendly Careers for Earth Day 2018(04/19/2018)

Why This Counts: What is the Producer Price Index and How Does It Impact Me?(04/10/2018)

Reaching out to Stakeholders—and Steakholders—in Philadelphia(04/05/2018)

Cooks, Chefs, and Bakers: If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen?(04/02/2018)

Up and Down the Turnpike: The Power of State Estimates of Consumer Spending(03/23/2018)

Why This Counts: Maximizing Our Data Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey(03/06/2018)

BLS Celebrates Read Across America Day(03/01/2018)

Do You Understand Your Local Economy?(02/22/2018)

Recalibrating the Jobs Thermometer(02/01/2018)

Data Privacy Day is Every Day at BLS(01/26/2018)

Recent Improvements to BLS Occupational Safety and Health Statistics(01/19/2018)

Workplace Fatalities of Older U.S. Workers, Including Baby Boomers, Reach Historic High(01/12/2018)

Celebrating 75 Years of BLS Regional Offices(12/21/2017)

Why This Counts: What Does BLS Know about Certifications and Licenses?(12/18/2017)

Looking Under the Hood of Jobs Data: Job Openings and Hires by Firm Size(12/11/2017)

What Does the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Tell Us about Football?(11/21/2017)

Labor Market Status of U.S. Military Veterans in 2017(11/09/2017)

Most Popular Items in the Occupational Outlook Handbook(10/25/2017)

People with a Disability in the Labor Market(10/20/2017)

Trying to Understand an Unusual Employment Report(10/18/2017)

How do we spend our time? Unpaid Eldercare(10/05/2017)

Labor Day 2017 Fast Facts(09/01/2017)

BLS Mathematical Statistician Receives American Statistical Association Founders Award(08/28/2017)

Diagnosing “Grey’s Anatomy” with 5 doses of BLS data(08/04/2017)

Most Dangerous Jobs?(06/27/2017)

Thinking about Summer Jobs(06/21/2017)

By the Numbers: Spending Habits of Older Americans(05/31/2017)

Why This Counts: How the Consumer Price Index Affects You(05/30/2017)

BLS Staff Member Receives Prestigious Honor(05/22/2017)

Put Your Writing Skills to Work(05/10/2017)

The Growing Need for Eldercare Workers(05/10/2017)

Now on Video: Finding Better Ways to Talk about Data(05/05/2017)

Why This Counts: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey(04/25/2017)

Increasing Commuting Costs?(04/19/2017)

Ice Cream versus Bacon(04/13/2017)

Teen Trends(04/13/2017)

Why Do We Ask about How People Use Their Time?(04/03/2017)

Bringing You Better Data on Occupational Wages(03/30/2017)

12 Stats about Working Women(03/02/2017)

Some Interesting Numbers about the Oscars(02/27/2017)

Shape the Future with a Teaching Career(02/16/2017)

Innovating for the Future(01/30/2017)

Why the Unemployment Rate Still Matters(01/25/2017)

How United Parcel Service Uses BLS Data(01/11/2017)

BLS Releases Data from the New Occupational Requirements Survey(12/01/2016)

Measuring Uncertainty in the Producer Price Index(11/28/2016)

Seeing Significance: New Chart Showing Confidence Intervals for Nonfarm Employment Changes(11/22/2016)

Labor Market Status of U.S. Military Veterans(11/17/2016)

BLS Microdata Now More Easily Accessible to Researchers across the Country(10/18/2016)

The Value and Influence of Labor Statistics in the 21st Century(10/11/2016)

A Brief Labor Market Update for Labor Day 2016(09/02/2016)

Prestigious Award for BLS and U.S. Census Bureau Researchers(08/12/2016)

Why This Counts: Productivity and Its Impact on Our Lives(08/09/2016)

Why This Counts: Working Together to Keep Workers Safe on the Road(06/22/2016)

Entrepreneurship Facts: Announcing New Research Data on Job Creation and Destruction by Firm Age and Size(04/28/2016)

Why This Counts: New Timely Data on Professional Certifications and Licenses(04/15/2016)

Data that Benefits You!(04/04/2016)

Partnering with the States to Provide Labor Market Information(03/28/2016)

Thinking About a New Job? Try Healthcare(03/21/2016)

Why This Counts: Measuring “Gig” Work(03/03/2016)

Worth a Thousand Words? Announcing Ready‐to‐Go Interactive Graphics with BLS News Releases(01/13/2016)

How People Use the Occupational Outlook Handbook to Search for Careers(12/17/2015)

Why This Counts: Slips, Trips, and Falls in the Workplace(12/11/2015)

Data Snapshot: Employment Projections 2014–24(12/08/2015)

Why This Counts: Understanding what the Producer Price Index Measures(11/13/2015)

Discussing the Jobs Report on C‐SPAN(11/06/2015)

Honoring Two Fearless BLS Visionaries(10/21/2015)

Why This Counts: Celebrating 100 years of Current Employment Statistics(10/15/2015)

Celebrating Our Customers(10/06/2015)

A History and Culture of Efficiency at BLS(10/02/2015)

Reducing Lacerations in California with ‘Cutting Edge’ Data(09/18/2015)

Experimental Disease‐Based Price Indexes Now Available(07/30/2015)

Why This Counts: New Data on Employee Benefits in 2015(07/29/2015)

Update on the 2016 President’s Budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics(07/14/2015)

Why This Counts: How BLS Data Support the Goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act(07/14/2015)

How Does BLS Deal with Uncertainty in Our Measures?(07/08/2015)

Why This Counts: How Much Time Do Americans Spend Working and Engaging in Other Activities outside of Work?(06/24/2015)

Visualizing BLS Data to Improve Understanding(05/21/2015)

Why This Counts: Employer Costs for Wages and Benefits(04/30/2015)

An Important Improvement in the Consumer Price Index(04/17/2015)

Why This Counts: Tracking Labor Market Experience over a Lifetime(04/02/2015)

Statement by BLS Commissioner Erica L. Groshen on the Passing of Former Commissioner Janet Norwood(03/31/2015)

C‐SPAN Program Features BLS Union Membership Data(03/27/2015)

Why This Counts: Medical Care Services in the CPI(03/26/2015)

Government Statistics in a World of Big Data(03/18/2015)

President’s 2016 budget would fund data on export prices and poverty measures(03/13/2015)

Why This Counts: Volunteering in the United States(03/03/2015)

President’s 2016 budget would expand labor market data(02/26/2015)

Women in Statistics: Beyond the Headline(02/05/2015)

The 2016 President’s Budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics(02/02/2015)

Protecting the public’s trust in federal statistics(12/12/2014)

Trade indexes in the Producer Price Index(11/20/2014)

BLS regional webpages get a makeover(11/19/2014)

Recognizing innovators at BLS(11/03/2014)

Announcing new research data on jobs and pay in the nonprofit sector(10/17/2014)

Learning about data needs from our customers and partners(10/07/2014)

Introducing the new Career Outlook for students, jobseekers, career counselors, and others(09/18/2014)

“Re‐Evaluating Labor Market Dynamics” at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium(09/16/2014)

You can vote for the BLS hurricane maps!(08/06/2014)

Seeking an expert to speak about the labor market and economy?(07/31/2014)

Accolades for the new BLS hurricane flood zone maps and tables(07/24/2014)

Gaining insights from journalists to improve BLS products and services(07/18/2014)

Helping young people learn about economic statistics—and have fun doing it!(07/11/2014)

Talking to retailers about economic statistics(06/26/2014)

Cleveland Fed conference on “all things inflation”(06/19/2014)

Big Data and new hurricane flood zone maps and tables(06/12/2014)

On the road in the Lone Star State(05/30/2014)

Why your survey answers are important(05/15/2014)

Society of Labor Economists 2014 Annual Meetings(05/08/2014)

Introducing the new and improved BLS Commissioner’s Corner(05/02/2014)

New pilot study from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses(04/17/2014)

Recent publications and new K‐12 Chart Maker tool(04/11/2014)

March Employment Situation(04/04/2014)

Two new BLS reports on minimum wage workers and the working poor(03/28/2014)

Veterans in the labor force; new Spotlight on injuries and illnesses(03/21/2014)

February Employment Situation and BLS budget update(03/07/2014)

Time spent volunteering in 2013(02/28/2014)

New Producer Price Index methodology and latest editions of Beyond the Numbers(02/21/2014)

My first anniversary at BLS; C‐SPAN program features employment projections(02/07/2014)

Upcoming Producer Price Index methodology changes(01/31/2014)

Occupational safety and health articles in the Monthly Labor Review(01/17/2014)

December Employment Situation(01/10/2014)

2014–2015 Occupational Outlook Handbook and related articles(01/08/2014)

New Spotlight celebrates International Year of Statistics; long‐term employment projections released(12/20/2013)

Interview with Federal News Radio(12/13/2013)

November Employment Situation(12/06/2013)

Collection of Consumer Price Index detailed price information(11/14/2013)

International Year of Statistics symposium at BLS(11/08/2013)

Adjusted news release schedule; new Monthly Labor Review article and women’s earnings report(10/31/2013)

Post‐government shutdown updates; new BLS K‐12 pages(10/25/2013)

Unpaid eldercare in the United States(09/20/2013)

Consumer expenditures in 2012 and related articles(09/13/2013)

Employee tenure Spotlight and new article on wage estimates by job characteristics(09/06/2013)

Long term unemployment among men; employment trends among youth in summer 2013(08/23/2013)

Geographic profiles report and two new Beyond the Numbers articles(08/16/2013)

Spotlight on Statistics redesign and July Employment Situation(08/02/2013)

Monthly Labor Review redesign; new Beyond the Numbers article discusses revisions to the jobs numbers(07/19/2013)

Changes to the BLS K‐12 site(07/11/2013)

June Employment Situation(07/05/2013)

C‐SPAN program takes a look at hires, job openings, and separations(06/28/2013)

My testimony about BLS occupational wage data(06/21/2013)

Labor force characteristics of people with a disability(06/14/2013)

May Employment Situation; upcoming changes to the Monthly Labor Review(06/07/2013)

The longest‐serving employee at BLS; May edition of the Monthly Labor Review(05/31/2013)

My interview with The Washington Post(05/24/2013)

Five new editions of Beyond the Numbers(05/17/2013)

Data Users Advisory Committee meeting; new Spotlight on international comparisons(05/10/2013)

April Employment Situation and Monthly Labor Review; a look at employment in the Bakken Formation(05/03/2013)

Barriers to employment for persons with a disability(04/26/2013)

My testimony on methods used to calculate the CPI(04/19/2013)

My participation in a panel discussion; two new Beyond the Numbers articles(04/12/2013)

March Employment Situation(04/05/2013)

Green technologies and practices among establishments(03/29/2013)

The employment situation of military veterans in 2012(03/22/2013)

New Spotlight on labor productivity trends by industry(03/15/2013)

February Employment Situation(03/08/2013)

Spending among urban and rural households; average food prices in 2013(03/01/2013)

My first post as BLS Commissioner(02/19/2013)