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• T100 regional firms still going strong

  - 2008-04-01

  The nation’s Top 100 regional firms reflected continued strong economic growth during 2007, despite signs of an economic downturn just before year’s end. Nationwide, Top 100 Firm revenue grew at a combined rate of 11.31 percent, just slightly above the previous year’s 11.09 percent. Consumer spending on...

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• Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco Group North America, on February's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report

  - 2008-03-07

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• Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on November's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report

  - 2007-12-07

  MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The following is a statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on November's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report which was released today at 8:30 AM ET.

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• Bureau of Labor Statistics: restaurant job injuries declined in 2006

  - 2007-12-03

  WASHINGTON -- The number of foodservice workers who missed at least a day of work to recover from on-the-job injuries declined sharply in 2006, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

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• Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on October's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report

  - 2007-11-02

  MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The following is a statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on October's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report which was released today at 8:30 AM ET.

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• Updated summary of NIPA methodologies

  - 2007-11-01

  The Bureau of Economic Analysis BEA has recently improved its estimates of current-dollar gross domestic product GDP, current-dollar gross domestic income GDI, and real GDP as part of the 2007 annual revision of the national income and product accounts NIPAs. (1) The sources of data and methodologies that are now...

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• The U.S. economy to 2016: slower growth as boomers begin to retire

  - 2007-11-01

  Real GDP growth is expected to average 2.8 percent a year over the next decade, less than its previous 10-year trend, while productivity growth is expected to slow as well; continued increases in defense spending and strong foreign markets also characterize the outlook for the coming decade ********** ...

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• Statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on September's Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report

  - 2007-10-05

  MELVILLE, N.Y. -- The following is a statement by Tig Gilliam, CEO of Adecco North America, on September's Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report which was released today at 8:30 AM ET.

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• Households in the U.S. spent an average of $5,931 on food in 2005, accounting for 12.8% of their average annual expenditures of $46,409, according to analysis by the Food Institute of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2005 Consumer Expenditure Survey

  - 2007-09-01

  Households in the U.S. spent an average of $5,931 on food in 2005, accounting for 12.8% (7.1% at-home, 5.7% away-from-home) of their average annual expenditures of $46,409, according to analysis by the Food Institute of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2005 Consumer Expenditure Survey the latest data available. For more...

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• Employment; The gospel according to the book of jobs.(2007 City Facts)(Brief article)

  - 2007-07-02

  People are happier when they have jobs. So goes the New York economy. The unemployment rate is lower than it has been in years, and it even compares well with those for other big cities and the nation as a whole. No borough has been left behind...

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• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Building industry employment up 56,000

  - 2007-04-09

  The construction industry accounted for about one out of three net new U.S. jobs in March, according to data released Friday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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• New monthly hours and earnings measures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Employment Statistics program

  - 2007-04-01

  On April 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS began the release of new monthly measures of hours and earnings for March 2006 to January 2007, based on newly collected data from the Current Employment Statistics CES survey. The measures include national estimates for private, non-farm industries of all-employee average...

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• Campaign for America's Future: 'State of the Union 2007: By the Numbers'

  - 2007-01-23

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Toby Chaudhuri, +1-202-587-1653, or Noreen Nielsen, +1- 603-858-2607, both for the Campaign for America's Future WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Bush is expected to hail the state of the union as strong tonight, but for Americans worrying about how to make ends meet, the country is...

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• Ready for the gold watch.(MILESTONE)

  - 2007-01-01

  If it weren't for a knee injury, Tom Barrett might have never worked for Earnest Machine Products Co. But now, 50 years after he joined the Parma-based seller and distributor of bolts, nuts, screws and 35,000 other fasteners, his entire adult life has...

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• The January review

  - 2007-01-01

  Our first issue of the year has long comprised features compiling changes in labor law and other legal issues. It is not just a gesture of good fellowship with our colleagues in the U.S. Department of Labor that enforce many aspects of such laws and provide us with these compendia;...

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• Workplace injury and illness rate declines.(Front Line)(Bureau of Labor Statistics)(Brief article)

  - 2007-01-01

  The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses declined significantly in 2005 for most case types, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses declined significantly in 2005 for most case types, according to the Bureau of Labor ...

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• Manufacturers' Outsourcing To Employment Services

  BNET - 2006-12-01

  This paper estimates the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services - comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations - on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of panel data on employment by occupation...

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• Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison: price changes in petroleum products are closely correlated among the three price programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; changes in the BLS petroleum-product CPI also correlate with c

  - 2006-12-01

  Political events in oil-producing countries, hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and increasing global demand for petroleum products have all contributed to sharp increases in recent years in prices of crude oil and of petroleum products derived from crude oil. From January 2000 to July 2006, the average price for...

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• Report Raises Questions

  - 2006-11-13

  Having served as the linchpin for the bond market for the last 20 years, the Nonfarm Payroll report released last month was a shocker, according to Dwight Johnston, VP of economic research at Wescorp. The shock, he said, was the "huge and inexplicable" re Having served as the linchpin for...

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• References.(Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market)

  - 2006-10-01

  Altonji, J. G. and R. M. Blank (1999), 'Race and gender in the labor market'. In: O. C. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.): Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V. Anderson, D. J., M. Binder, and K. Krause (2003), 'The motherhood...

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