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• Job Havens: The Best Small- to Medium-Sized Cities

  BNET - 2009-04-01

  In this miserable job market, you gotta' go where the jobs are, and they aren't always in the big city. These three small- to mid-sized cities are riding out the economic storm and companies there are still hiring professional-level employees...Bigger isn't always better — these small- to medium-sized cities are...

  Tags: Job, City, Bureau Of Labor Statistics, MoneyWatch, Recruitment & Selection, Public Relations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Government, Best Cities, Employment, Washington, D.C., Des Moines, Portsmouth, Maggie Overfelt

• 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...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Government, Midwest, Regulations, revenue, SALES, Sarbanes-Oxley, South, Southeast

• 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 ********** ...

  Tags: BUREAU, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Government, government, income, inflation, Investment, Labor, Productivity, tax, U.S., Unemployment

• 1915: the July review

  - 2005-07-01

  "With this issue the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor begins the publication of its MONTHLY REVIEW." Thus the editors began Volume I--Number 1 of this periodical 90 years ago. The first feature was a very short note, "'Conciliation work of the Department of Labor,"...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government, Manufacturing, Regulations, U.S. Department of Labor

• The U.S. economy to 2012: signs of growth: based on the assumptions used in developing economic projections, real GDP is expected to grow during the next decade, while productivity remains strong and inflation remains stable

  - 2004-02-01

  Every 2 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics prepares a set of projected U.S. economic factors that form the basis for the employment projections program. This article presents the projections of U.S. economic factors that underlie the 2002-12 employment projections. This set of aggregate economic projections presents some unique challenges....

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Government, income, inflation, investment, job, payment, productivity, surplus, Taxes, U.S.

• Finding and using government data. (Business Management & Marketing).

  - 2003-06-01

  THERE HAS TRADITIONALLY been an enormous amount of information disseminated throughout the federal government that is of great value to the adhesives industry. The difference today is that instead of having to order CD-ROMs or hard copies with dated material, the Internet has made quickly getting "real time" government data...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government, INTERNET, search, SEC, Strategy

• The U.S. economy to 2010: domestic growth with continued high productivity, low unemployment rates, and strong foreign markets characterize the expected outlook for the coming decade

  - 2001-11-01

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, the Bureau) projections for the U.S. economy during the 2000-10 decade reflect continued growth. Gross domestic product GDP is expected to reach $12.8 trillion in chained 1996 dollars by the end of the decade, an increase of $3.6 trillion over the period. (1) Rising...

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• Data and dogma in public policy.

  - 1999-06-01

  The establishment of a Council of Social Advisers could enhance the ability of the US government in dealing with the nation's social problems. Its structure would be similar to that of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The US' statistical infrastructure remains badly disorganized despite years spent by the federal...

  Tags: advisor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, commission, Council, Federal Reserve Board, finance, Gordon, Government, president, U.S. Senate

• Cable Regulation Ends Quietly

  - 1999-03-29

  All cable rates but basic tier will be deregulated starting April 1 as required under Telecom Act, but few local regulators told us they were expecting big jumps in prices. Rather, they accused FCC of doing poor job of implementing rate regulation and having had motives other than assuring...

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