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• Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers 05/22/2013
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• Consumer Price Index 05/16/2013
• Real Earnings 05/16/2013

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Growing demand for fertilizer keeps prices high

May 24, 2013
Steadily growing global demand for grain crops has generated higher crop prices and increased demand for fertilizers, particularly imported fertilizers. As corn prices remain high, U.S. corn growers are expected to plant 97.3 million acres of corn in 2013, representing the largest planting since 1936. Full Text »

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• Growing demand for fertilizer keeps prices high 05/24/2013
• Mass layoffs in April 2013 05/23/2013
• Barriers to employment for persons with a disability 05/22/2013
• Mass Layoffs — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/22/2013
• Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers in 2011 (PDF) (HTML) 05/22/2013
• State employment and unemployment, April 2013 05/21/2013
• Real earnings increase in April 05/17/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Spending on pets: "Tails" from the Consumer Expenditure Survey 05/20/2013
• Consumer Price Index, April 2013 05/17/2013
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/17/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Compensation highlights in trade, transportation, and utilities industries 05/16/2013
• Consumer Price Index — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/16/2013
• Real Earnings — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/16/2013
• Producer prices for finished goods decrease 0.7 percent in April 2013 05/16/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Owners' equivalent rent and the Consumer Price Index: 30 years and counting 05/15/2013
• Producer Price Index — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/15/2013
• Import and export prices down in April 2013 05/15/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: The effects of shale gas production on natural gas prices 05/14/2013
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/14/2013
• Extended mass layoff events and separations, first quarter 2013 05/14/2013
• Union and nonunion wages, December 2011 05/13/2013
• Extended Mass Layoffs — First Quarter 2013(PDF) (HTML) 05/13/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Growing demand for fertilizer keeps prices high 05/10/2013
• Happy Mother's Day from BLS: working mothers in 2012 05/10/2013
• Spotlight on Statistics: International Labor Comparisons 05/09/2013
• Job openings, hires, and separations rates in March 2013 05/09/2013
• Large firms gain 133,000 jobs during 3rd quarter of 2012 05/08/2013
• Number of discouraged workers down by 133,000 from last year, April 2013 05/07/2013
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/07/2013
• Payroll employment up in April 2013 05/06/2013
• Labor productivity, first quarter 2013 05/03/2013
• The Employment Situation — April 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/03/2013
• Employment and unemployment in Mountain states metropolitan areas, March 2013 05/02/2013
• Productivity and Costs (P), First Quarter 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/02/2013
• Compensation costs in March 2013: state and local government workers 05/01/2013
• Business Employment Dynamics — Third Quarter 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 05/01/2013
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 05/01/2013
• Employment characteristics of families, 2012 04/30/2013
• Employment Cost Index — First Quarter 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/30/2013
• Employment growth in oil-producing counties in the Bakken Formation, 2007–2011 04/29/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Employment and wage changes in oil-producing counties in the Bakken Formation, 2007–2011 04/26/2013
• Employment Characteristics of Families — 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 04/26/2013
• Medical and retirement benefits, March 2012 04/26/2013
• Consumer Expenditures in 2011 (PDF)
• Mass layoffs in March 2013 04/25/2013
• Persons With a Disability: Barriers To Employment, Types of Assistance, and Other Labor-Related Issues — May 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 04/24/2013
• Unemployment by state, March 2013 04/24/2013
• Mass Layoffs — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/23/2013
• North Dakota has largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment among states, March 2013 04/23/2013
• 48.8 percent of recent high school graduates in labor force 04/22/2013
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/19/2013
• Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, first quarter 2013 04/19/2013
• Real earnings in March 2013 04/18/2013
• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: First Quarter 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/18/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Retirement and medical benefits: Who has both? 04/17/2013
• Consumer Price Index, March 2012 to March 2013 04/17/2013
• College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2012 High School Graduates (PDF) (HTML) 04/17/2013
• Employee contributions to medical care benefits costs 04/16/2013
• Real Earnings — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/16/2013
• Consumer Price Index — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/16/2013
• Producer prices up 1.1 percent for the 12 months ended March 2013 04/15/2013
• U.S. import prices down over the year ending March 2013; export prices up slightly 04/12/2013
• Producer Price Index — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/12/2013
• The 2014 President's Budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics 04/11/2013
• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, February 2013 04/11/2013
• A Profile of the Working Poor (PDF) 04/11/2013
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/11/2013
• Job openings in February 2013 04/10/2013
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/10/2013
• Duration of unemployment in March 2013 04/09/2013
• Multifactor Productivity Trends — Annual 2011 (HTML) (PDF) 04/09/2013
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/09/2013
• Employment in March 2013 04/08/2013
• The Employment Situation — March 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 04/05/2013
• The job market for recent college graduates in the United States 04/05/2013
• Employment and wages for newly defined occupations, May 2012 04/04/2013
• State unemployment rates in February 2013 04/03/2013
• State employment in February 2013 04/02/2013
• Employment in green good and services, 2011 04/01/2013
• Monthly Labor Review: March 2013 Issue -- includes "U.S. labor market continued to improve in 2012," "Slow and steady: payroll employment grew moderately in 2012," "Restricted work due to workplace injuries: a historical perspective," and "Changes in federal and state unemployment insurance legislation in 2012" 03/29/2013
• Employment in 10 largest counties 03/29/2013
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/29/2013
• Occupational Employment and Wages, 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 03/29/2013
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: Spring 2013 Issue 03/28/2013
• Labor productivity and unit labor costs among manufacturing industries, 2011 03/28/2013
• County Employment and Wages: Third Quarter 2012 (HTML) (PDF) 03/28/2013
• Mass layoffs in February 2013 03/27/2013
• Consumer Expenditures Midyear Update Midyear 2011–2012 (PDF) (HTML) 03/27/2013
• Metropolitan Area Unemployment, January 2013 03/26/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Reduce, reuse, recycle: green technologies and practices at work 03/25/2013
• Minimum wage workers account for 4.7 percent of hourly paid workers in 2012 03/25/2013
• Texas Export Highlights (PDF) 03/22/2013
• Unemployment among veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces declines in 2012 03/22/2013
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — January 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/22/2013
• Mass Layoffs — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/22/2013
• Employer costs for employee compensation, December 2012 03/21/2013
• Productivity and Costs by Industry: Manufacturing Industries 2011 (PDF) (HTML) 03/21/2013
• States with lower-than-national unemployment rates 03/20/2013
• Employment Situation of Veterans — 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 03/20/2013
• Real earnings in February 2013 03/19/2013
• Employment in Green Goods and Services — 2011 (PDF) (HTML) 03/19/2013
• Consumer Price Index, February 2012 to February 2013 03/18/2013
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — January 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/18/2013
• Consumer Price Index — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/15/2013
• Real Earnings — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/15/2013
• Producer prices up 1.7 percent for the 12 months ended February 2013 03/15/2013
• Spotlight on Statistics: Industry Labor Productivity Trends from 2000 to 2010 03/14/2013
• Producer Price Index — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/14/2013
• Import and export prices up 1.1 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively, in February 2013 03/14/2013
• Annual hires and separations, 2012 03/13/2013
• U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/13/2013
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — January 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/12/2013
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation — December 2012 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 03/12/2013
• Unemployment rate by major worker group, February 2013 03/12/2013
• Payroll employment up in February 2013 03/11/2013
• International unemployment rates, January 2013 03/08/2013
• The Employment Situation — February 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 03/08/2013
• Young adult employment varies by education 03/07/2013
• Productivity and Costs (R), Fourth Quarter 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 03/07/2012
• Gold prices rise more than 100 percent since 2008 03/05/2013
• Annual average unemployment rates declined in 2013 03/04/2013
• Expenditures of urban and rural households in 2011 03/01/2013
• America's Youth at 25: School Enrollment, Training, and Work Activity (PDF) (HTML) 03/01/2013
• Regional and State Unemployment — 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 03/01/2013
• Monthly Labor Review: February 2013 Issue -- includes "Recent college graduates in the U.S. labor force: data from the Current Population Survey," "Hispanic/Latino fatal occupational injury rates," and "State labor legislation enacted in 2012" 02/28/2013
• Consumer Prices, 1913 and 2013 02/28/2013
• Mass layoffs in January 2013 02/27/2013
• Volunteering declines in 2012 02/26/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Expenditures of urban and rural households in 2011 02/25/2013
• Real earnings in January 2013 02/25/2013
• Volunteering in the United States — 2012 (PDF) (HTML) 02/22/2013
• Consumer Price Index up 1.6 percent from January 2012 to January 2013 02/22/2013
• Consumer Price Index — January 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 02/21/2013
• Real Earnings — January 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 02/21/2013
• Producer prices in January 2013 02/21/2013
• Producer Price Index — January 2013 (PDF) (HTML) 02/20/2013
• Beyond the Numbers: Gold prices during and after the Great Recession 02/20/2013

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