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2017 Archived articles from The Economics Daily (in chronological order)

December 2017

Hawaii had the lowest unemployment rate in November 2017 (12/29/2017)
Utah had largest percentage increase in employment over the year ending November 2017 (12/28/2017)
A look at women’s education and earnings since the 1970s (12/27/2017)
Private employer costs for pay and benefits averaged $42.20 per hour in Middle Atlantic states (12/26/2017)
5,190 fatal work injuries in the United States during 2016 (12/22/2017)
38 percent of private industry workers had access to nonproduction bonuses in 2017 (12/21/2017)
Real average hourly earnings increased 0.2 percent from November 2016 to November 2017 (12/20/2017)
Import prices up 3.1 percent over the year ending November 2017 (12/19/2017)
CPI-U up 2.2 percent over 12 months ended November 2017 (12/18/2017)
PPI for final demand foods increased 3.5 percent over the year ending November 2017 (12/15/2017)
Job openings little changed at 6.0 million in October 2017 (12/14/2017)
Unemployment rate held at 4.1 percent in November 2017 (12/13/2017)
Nonfarm employment up 228,000 in November 2017 (12/12/2017)
Revised nonfarm business sector labor productivity still up 3.0 percent during third quarter of 2017 (12/11/2017)
68.8 percent of people who worked in 2016 worked full time, year round (12/08/2017)
Employment increased in 318 of 346 largest counties for year ending June 2017 (12/07/2017)
Working alone: jobs that required little personal interaction in 2017 (12/06/2017)
47 out of 51 largest metropolitan areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases (12/05/2017)
Employment up in 47 of 51 largest metropolitan areas, October 2017 (12/04/2017)
Percentage of employed women working full time little changed over past 5 decades (12/01/2017)

November 2017

Nonfatal work-related injury and illness rates declined in six states in 2016 (11/30/2017)
Three states at historically low unemployment rates in October 2017 (11/29/2017)
Mining and logging leads most states with largest 12-month increase in employment since October 2016 (11/28/2017)
Electronic shopping employment more than tripled from 2001 to 2016 (11/27/2017)
Real average hourly earnings up 0.4 percent for private employees over the year ending October 2017 (11/24/2017)
Employment gain of 654,000 during first quarter of 2017 (11/22/2017)
Fuel import prices up 13.2 percent, October 2016 to October 2017 (11/21/2017)
PPI for final demand up 2.8 percent for the year ended October 2017 (11/20/2017)
Consumer Price Index up 2.0 percent from October 2016 to October 2017 (11/17/2017)
Job gains among startup firms in 2017 (11/16/2017)
Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work in 2016 (11/15/2017)
Professional and business and education and health services had the most job openings in September (11/14/2017)
Unemployment rates decline in 345 metropolitan areas over the year ending September 2017 (11/13/2017)
A look at paid time off for military commitments in 2017 (11/09/2017)
1.6 million people unemployed 27 weeks or more in October 2017, 24.8 percent of all unemployed (11/08/2017)
Payroll employment up by 261,000 in October 2017 (11/07/2017)
Labor productivity up 1.5 percent from third quarter 2016 to third quarter 2017 (11/06/2017)
Employment increased in 34 of 38 metropolitan divisions for year ending September 2017 (11/03/2017)
Total compensation in educational services rose 2.3 percent for the year ending September 2017 (11/02/2017)
Labor force participation rates projected to decline over the next decade (11/01/2017)

October 2017

The rising cost of dying, 1986–2017 (10/31/2017)
Thirty fastest growing occupations projected to account for 19 percent of new jobs from 2016 to 2026 (10/30/2017)
Occupations with the highest concentration in each state in May 2016 (10/27/2017)
Occupations typically requiring postsecondary education gained 5.3 million jobs, May 2007–16 (10/26/2017)
22 states had unemployment rate decreases from September 2016 to September 2017 (10/25/2017)
Hawaii has highest ratio of service-providing jobs to goods-producing jobs in September 2017 (10/24/2017)
Median weekly earnings $767 for women, $937 for men, in third quarter 2017 (10/23/2017)
U.S. import prices up 2.7 percent over the year ending September 2017 (10/20/2017)
Real average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees up 0.2 percent over the year (10/19/2017)
CPI increased 2.2 percent for year ending September 2017 (10/18/2017)
Producer Price Index for final demand up 2.6 percent over the year ended September 2017 (10/17/2017)
1.2 unemployed people per job opening in August 2017 (10/16/2017)
Vision care plans available to 23 percent of private industry workers in March 2017 (10/13/2017)
Unemployment rate decreased to 4.2 percent in September 2017 (10/12/2017)
Nonfarm employment up 1.8 million, or 1.2 percent, from September 2016 to September 2017 (10/11/2017)
Workers with a disability more concentrated in service occupations than those with no disability (10/10/2017)
94 percent of union workers had access to medical care benefits in March 2017 (10/06/2017)
Occupations typically requiring high school for entry lost 1.3 million jobs, May 2007–16 (10/05/2017)
Unemployment rate drops at least 1.0 percentage point in 79 of 388 areas for year ending August 2017 (10/04/2017)
12-month employment growth 3.0 percent or higher in 6 large metropolitan areas, August 2017 (10/03/2017)
A look at incentive-based versus time-based pay in 2016 (10/02/2017)

September 2017

63 percent of defined benefit retirement participants in plans open to new participants (09/29/2017)
Noise at work: Intensity levels in construction and extraction and food service occupations in 2016 (09/28/2017)
Time spent providing eldercare, 2015–16 (09/27/2017)
On tap: a look at statewide employment per brewery (09/26/2017)
26.8 million Hispanics or Latinos in the U.S. labor force in 2016 (09/25/2017)
Industrial supplies and materials import prices up 8.1 percent over the year, August 2017 (09/22/2017)
Three states at historically low unemployment rates in August 2017 (09/21/2017)
Nevada, Georgia, Florida, Utah, and Texas had largest percent job gains for year ending August 2017 (09/20/2017)
Real hourly earnings up 2.2 percent over the year in information industry (09/19/2017)
Video and audio product prices fall 6.8 percent over year and audio services up 5.4 percent (09/18/2017)
Producer Price Index for final demand up 2.4 percent over the year ended August 2017 (09/15/2017)
Private job openings increase by 241,000 from July 2016 to July 2017 (09/14/2017)
Youngest baby boomers employed an average of 78 percent of weeks from ages 18 to 50 (09/13/2017)
Employer costs for employee compensation $55.13 per hour in information industry, June 2017 (09/12/2017)
Consumer spending on vehicles averaged $8,427 in 2016 (09/11/2017)
Employment increased in 299 of 346 largest counties for year ending March 2017 (09/08/2017)
Unemployment rate 2.4 percent for college grads, 5.1 percent for high school grads in August 2017 (09/07/2017)
Employment up 156,000 in August, averaging 176,000 per month so far this year (09/06/2017)
Unemployment rates lower in July 2017 than a year earlier in 340 metro areas; higher in 39 areas (09/05/2017)
Employment increased in 336 metro areas for the year ending July 2017 (09/01/2017)

August 2017

Household spending increased for all income groups from 2015 to 2016 (08/31/2017)
Work injuries in the heat in 2015 (08/30/2017)
Time spent in educational activities in 2016 (08/29/2017)
Baby boomers born from 1957 to 1964 held an average of 11.9 jobs from ages 18 to 50 (08/28/2017)
Women's and men's earnings by age in 2016 (08/25/2017)
Summer youth labor force in July 2017 (08/24/2017)
North Dakota and Tennessee set new unemployment series lows in July 2017 (08/23/2017)
Delaware had highest percentage increase in average hourly earnings from July 2016 to July 2017 (08/22/2017)
Shining a light on employment in the path of the August 21 solar eclipse (08/21/2017)
Import air passenger fares fall 2.6 percent over the year; export fares rise 4.3 percent (08/18/2017)
Real average hourly earnings up 0.7 percent over the year ending July 2017 (08/17/2017)
Consumer Price Index rose 1.7 percent from July 2016 to July 2017 (08/16/2017)
PPI for final demand up 1.9 percent over the year ended July 2017 (08/15/2017)
Productivity up in wholesale trade, retail trade, and food services and drinking places in 2016 (08/14/2017)
Productivity increased 1.2 percent from Q2 2016 to Q2 2017 (08/11/2017)
Job openings rose to 6.2 million in June 2017 (08/10/2017)
Employment–population ratio and labor force participation rate by age (08/09/2017)
Nonfarm employment up 209,000 in July 2017 (08/08/2017)
43 out of 51 largest metro areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases (08/07/2017)
Employment increased in 342 metropolitan areas over the year ending June 2017 (08/04/2017)
Married couples with oldest child under age 6 spent 36.3 percent of total expenditures on housing (08/03/2017)
93 percent of managers and 46 percent of service workers had paid sick leave benefits in March 2017 (08/02/2017)
Compensation costs for leisure and hospitality workers up 3.9 percent in 12 months ending June 2017 (08/01/2017)

July 2017

Average weekly wages highest in D.C. and lowest in Mississippi in fourth quarter 2016 (07/31/2017)
Employment gain 201,000 at firms with 250 or more employees, 4th quarter 2016 (07/28/2017)
95 percent of managers and 39 percent of service workers offered medical benefits in March 2017 (07/27/2017)
Colorado and North Dakota had the lowest unemployment rates among the states in June 2017 (07/26/2017)
Nevada employment up 3.8 percent over the year, June 2017 (07/25/2017)
Multifactor productivity grew in 54 of 86 manufacturing industries from 1987 to 2015 (07/24/2017)
High school graduates who work full time had median weekly earnings of $718 in second quarter (07/21/2017)
Import prices up 1.5 percent, export prices up 0.6 percent over the year ending June 2017 (07/20/2017)
Real average hourly earnings up 0.8 percent over the year ending June 2017 (07/19/2017)
Consumer Price Index rose 1.6 percent from June 2016 to June 2017 (07/18/2017)
Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.0 percent over the year ended June 2017 (07/17/2017)
Almost half of people employed in sales and related occupations worked weekends and holidays in 2016 (07/14/2017)
Leisure and hospitality industry leads in job openings rates (07/13/2017)
Leisure and hospitality had highest unemployment rate in June 2017 (07/12/2017)
Payroll employment up 222,000 in June 2017 (07/11/2017)
Productivity and compensation, 1987–2015 (07/10/2017)
Pay and access to benefits rise as job level rises (07/07/2017)
8.8 million science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in May 2016 (07/06/2017)
Employment and wages in all the Jefferson counties in 2016 (07/05/2017)
194 of 388 metropolitan areas had unemployment rates below U.S. rate of 4.1 percent in May 2017 (07/03/2017)

June 2017

Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 304 metropolitan areas for year ending May 2017 (06/30/2017)
On days they worked, 22 percent of employed did some or all of their work at home in 2016 (06/29/2017)
37 percent of May 2016 employment in occupations typically requiring postsecondary education (06/28/2017)
30 percent of civilian jobs require some driving in 2016 (06/27/2017)
Unemployment rate of people with a disability 10.5 percent in 2016 (06/26/2017)
Higher paid workers more likely to have access to retirement benefits than lower paid workers (06/23/2017)
Seven states at historically low unemployment rates in May 2017 (06/22/2017)
Employment up 3.3 percent in Utah over the year ending May 2017 (06/21/2017)
Import prices decline 12.9 percent from June 2014 to May 2017 (06/20/2017)
Real average hourly earnings increased 0.6 percent over the year ended May 2017 (06/19/2017)
CPI rose 1.9 percent over the 12 months ending May 2017 (06/16/2017)
PPI for final demand goods less foods and energy increased 2.2 percent over the year ending May 2017 (06/15/2017)
Running employment data on Flagstaff, Arizona, up the flag pole, April 2017 (06/14/2017)
Hourly compensation costs total $53.61 in San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland in March 2017 (06/13/2017)
Employment in 10 largest counties, December 2016 (06/12/2017)
Job openings rose to 6.0 million in April 2017 (06/09/2017)
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro had largest unemployment rate decrease for year ended April 2017 (06/08/2017)
Reasons for unemployment in May 2017 (06/07/2017)
Payroll employment up 138,000 in May 2017 (06/06/2017)
Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 297 metropolitan areas over the year ending April 2017 (06/05/2017)
Industries with summertime peaks in employment (06/02/2017)
73 percent of all civilian workers had access to paid vacations in March 2016 (06/01/2017)

May 2017

14.9 percent of civilian jobs exposed to hazardous contaminants in 2016 (05/31/2017)
Labor productivity rose in 17 of 28 selected service-providing industries in 2016 (05/30/2017)
Illinois, Oregon, West Virginia, Wyoming have largest 12-month jobless rate drops in April 2017 (05/26/2017)
Employment in professional and business services increased in most states for year ending April 2017 (05/25/2017)
Foreign-born workers made 83.1 percent of the earnings of their native-born counterparts in 2016 (05/24/2017)
Textile mills labor productivity up 6.6 percent in 2016 (05/23/2017)
69.7 percent of 2016 high school graduates enrolled in college in October 2016 (05/22/2017)
Real hourly earnings up 0.4 percent over the year ending April 2017 (05/19/2017)
Apparel prices up 0.5 percent over the year ending April 2017 (05/18/2017)
PPI final demand index up 2.5 percent for the 12 months ended April 2017 (05/17/2017)
Import prices up 4.1 percent for the year ended in April (05/16/2017)
Job openings and hires rates by industry, March 2017 (05/15/2017)
Unemployment rates lower in March 2017 than a year earlier in 336 metro areas (05/12/2017)
Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 310 metropolitan areas for year ending March 2017 (05/11/2017)
1.5 million people marginally attached to the labor force in April 2017 (05/10/2017)
Nonfarm employment up 211,000 in April 2017 (05/09/2017)
Nonfarm business unit labor costs increase 2.8 percent from Q1 2016 to Q1 2017 (05/08/2017)
Workplace injuries and illnesses resulting in job transfer or restriction in 2015 (05/05/2017)
Firm size and employment growth, 1992–2016 (05/04/2017)
Three quarters of state and local government workers were in defined benefit pension plans in 2016 (05/03/2017)
Compensation costs rise 2.3 percent for private industry workers over the year ending March 2017 (05/02/2017)
Gross job gains exceed gross job losses by 688,000 in third quarter of 2016 (05/01/2017)

April 2017

Workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities by occupation (04/28/2017)
Employment in families with children in 2016 (04/27/2017)
18 states have lower unemployment rates in year ending March 2017 (04/26/2017)
Twenty-seven states had significant employment increases for year ending March 2017 (04/25/2017)
Median weekly earnings increase 4.2 percent for full-time workers over the year (04/24/2017)
Real average hourly earnings up 0.3 percent for year ending March 2017 (04/21/2017)
CPI rose 2.4 percent over the 12 months ending March 2017 (04/20/2017)
Unemployment rates decline in 274 metropolitan areas over the year ending February 2017 (04/19/2017)
Camden and Dallas had highest percent increases in employment for year ended February 2017 (04/18/2017)
Producer Price Index for final demand goods increased 4.0 percent over the year ending March 2017 (04/17/2017)
Import prices up 4.2 percent over the year ending March 2017 (04/14/2017)
5.2 million private industry job openings on last business day of February 2017 (04/13/2017)
U-3 unemployment rate was 4.5 percent in March 2017; U-6 was 8.9 percent (04/12/2017)
Payroll employment edged up by 98,000 in March 2017 (04/11/2017)
Physical strength required for jobs in different occupations in 2016 (04/10/2017)
Multifactor productivity decreased 0.2 percent in 2016 (04/07/2017)
Annual mean wage of construction and extraction occupations was $48,900 in 2016 (04/06/2017)
Fatal injuries at road work zones (04/05/2017)
Households spent an average of $528 on pets in 2015 (04/04/2017)
Newspaper publishers lose over half their employment from January 2001 to September 2016 (04/03/2017)

March 2017

Unemployment rates in Arkansas and Oregon at record lows in February 2017 (03/31/2017)
Nonfarm payroll employment increased in 31 states over the 12 months ending February 2017 (03/30/2017)
31 percent of employed veterans with a disability worked in government in August 2016 (03/29/2017)
Supplemental pay averaged 3.5 percent of total compensation costs in December 2016 (03/28/2017)
Salt Lake City had lowest unemployment rate among large metropolitan areas in January 2017 (03/27/2017)
308 metro areas had increases in employment for year ending January 2017 (03/24/2017)
Real earnings unchanged over the year ending February 2017 (03/23/2017)
Quits rise while layoffs and discharges fall in 2016 (03/22/2017)
Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs down 7 percent since August 2015 peak (03/21/2017)
Producer Price Index for final demand increased 2.2 percent for the year ended February 2017 (03/20/2017)
State unemployment rates, January 2007 to January 2017 (03/17/2017)
Twenty-eight states had significant employment increases for year ending January 2017 (03/16/2017)
Unemployment rate at 4.7 percent in February 2017 (03/15/2017)
U.S. import and export prices up over the year ending February 2017 (03/14/2017)
Nonfarm employment up 2.35 million, February 2016 to February 2017 (03/13/2017)
Women in architecture and engineering occupations in 2016 (03/10/2017)
Average weekly wages among largest counties, third quarter 2015 to third quarter 2016 (03/09/2017)
Women’s median earnings 82 percent of men’s in 2016 (03/08/2017)
Labor share of output has declined since 1947 (03/07/2017)
Consumer spending in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan (03/06/2017)
Establishments with fewer than 50 workers employed 60 percent of construction workers in March 2016 (03/03/2017)
North Dakota had highest proportion of people employed in 2016 (03/02/2017)
Standing or walking versus sitting on the job in 2016 (03/01/2017)

February 2017

Pound of ground beef cost 17.9 percent of average hourly earnings in 2016 (02/28/2017)
A look at employment and wages in the film industry (02/27/2017)
Labor productivity growth since the Great Recession (02/24/2017)
Union membership rates by state in 2016 (02/23/2017)
15 major work stoppages in 2016 (02/22/2017)
Real average hourly earnings unchanged from January 2016 to January 2017 (02/21/2017)
CPI rose 2.5 percent over the 12 months ending January 2017 (02/17/2017)
PPI final demand index up 1.6 percent for the 12 months ended January 2017 (02/16/2017)
Import prices from China decrease 1.7 percent over the year ending January 2017 (02/15/2017)
192 metropolitan areas had jobless rates below U.S. rate of 4.5 percent in December 2016 (02/14/2017)
Employment up in 49 of the 51 largest metro areas, December 2015 to December 2016 (02/13/2017)
Unit labor costs for nonfarm business increase 1.9 percent during 2016 (02/10/2017)
Union membership rate 10.7 percent in 2016 (02/09/2017)
Net employment gain measures 2.4 million in 2016 (02/08/2017)
Unemployment rate 2.5 percent for college grads, 7.7 percent for high school dropouts, January 2017 (02/07/2017)
Payroll employment up by 227,000 in January 2017 (02/06/2017)
Prior work experience required for 47.8 percent of all civilian jobs in 2016 (02/03/2017)
Employer costs for benefits to union workers up 31 percent over last decade (02/02/2017)
Employment in apparel manufacturing decreased 85 percent over last 25 years (02/01/2017)

January 2017

Gross job gains totaled 7.5 million in the second quarter of 2016 (01/31/2017)
Median weekly earnings were $849 in the fourth quarter of 2016 (01/30/2017)
December 2016 unemployment rates lowest in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, South Dakota (01/27/2017)
Virginia added 14,100 jobs in December 2016 (01/26/2017)
Work absences due to bad weather from 1994 to 2016 (01/25/2017)
Real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees up 0.5 percent in 2016 (01/24/2017)
CPI up 2.1 percent over the 12 months ending December 2016 (01/23/2017)
Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers had median hourly wages of $36.38 in May 2015 (01/19/2017)
PPI final demand index up 1.6 percent in 2016 (01/18/2017)
Computer and electronic product manufacturing import prices down 7.3 percent since December 2012 (01/17/2017)
Unemployment rate and employment-population ratio vary by race and ethnicity (01/13/2017)
Over 1 million health care and social assistance job openings on last business day of November 2016 (01/12/2017)
Logging workers had highest rate of fatal work injuries in 2015 (01/11/2017)
Unemployment rate down 0.3 percentage point over the year ended December 2016 (01/10/2017)
Nonfarm payroll employment growth totaled 2.2 million in 2016 (01/09/2017)
Over 90 percent of protective service and construction and extraction jobs require work outdoors (01/06/2017)
Prices for new cars up 5 percent, insurance 50 percent, over last 10 years (01/05/2017)
7 Massachusetts metro areas among largest over-the-year unemployment rate declines in November 2016 (01/04/2017)
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, leads large metro areas in over-the-year employment percent gain (01/03/2017)