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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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• HOMEPAGE: A LOOK AHEAD...TEN YEARS AGO...QUESTION OF THE WEEK.

  - 2006-01-02

  A LOOK AHEAD Retailers will release December same-store sales on Jan. 5. Helen of Troy will report its third-quarter earnings on Jan. 9. Advance monthly retail sales for December will be released by the U.S. Commerce Department's...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Retail, SALES, U.S., U.S. Department of Labor

• The U.S. Producer Price Index for Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage

  BNET - 2004-08-19

  The U.S. Producer Price Index for Refrigerated warehousing and storage has been in calculation since January of 1992. Refrigerated warehousing and storage is of special interest because of the bundling of services that is inherent to the industry. Different refrigerated warehousing establishments offer different bundled services at unique rates in...

  Tags: U.S., Warehousing, Storage, Bureau Of Labor Statistics

• 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.

• U.S. economic performance relative to other group of seven members

  - 2004-01-01

  Economic Growth The real gross domestic product GDP of the United States--the output of goods and services produced in the United States measured in 1996 prices--increased at an annual rate of 4.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, compared with 8.2 percent growth in the third quarter, according...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, compensation, manufacturing, OECD, productivity, U.S.

• U.S. Labor Department Publishes International Labor Comparisons on U.S., Europe and Asia

  - 2003-07-22

  WASHINGTON, July 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Labor Department has issued A Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons: United States, Europe, and Asia. The book, a collaborative effort the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, is the department's first international chartbook to compare select...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Europe, U.S., U.S. Department of Labor

• U.S. labor market performance in international perspective: from 1960 to 2000, U.S. unemployment rates improved from relatively high to the lowest among the G7 countries; Canada and the United States were leaders in job creation, while Japan and Europe ha

  - 2002-06-01

  For developed economies, monthly unemployment and employment changes are considered the two most informative labor market indicators, providing knowledge about the current performance of the labor market and the economy as a whole. International analyses often focus on these two key indicators as well, to compare the functioning of labor...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Canada, Europe, Germany, Italy, Japan, job, leader, OECD, performance, U.S., unemployment, women, worker, youth

• 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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• Doing things better

  - 2001-03-01

  Sites for exporters, dimensional selling and security analysis Extra Help for Exporters Are you exporting to the United States? What you may not know is that U.S. government Web sites supply deep, rich repositories of economic and demographic information useful to Canadian firms doing business in the United...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, INTERNET, U.S.

• International unemployment rates: how comparable are they? - comparing US unemployment rate with that of other countries

  - 2000-06-01

  Adjusted to U.S. concepts, the Canadian unemployment rate is reduced by 1 percentage point; effects of adjustments on European unemployment rates are smaller Comparative unemployment rates are used frequently in international analyses of labor markets and are cited often in the press. In the United States, the comparative levels...

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