Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk— Current Population Survey

• Barriers to employment for persons with a disability (05/22/2013)
• Happy Mother’s Day from BLS: working mothers in 2012 (05/10/2013)
• Number of discouraged workers down by 133,000 from last year, April 2013 (05/07/2013)
• Employment characteristics of families, 2012 (04/30/2013)
• 48.8 percent of recent high school graduates in labor force (04/22/2013)
• Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, first quarter 2013 (04/19/2013)
• Duration of unemployment in March 2013 (04/09/2013)
• The job market for recent college graduates in the United States (04/05/2013)
• Minimum wage workers account for 4.7 percent of hourly paid workers in 2012 (03/25/2013)
• Unemployment among veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces declines in 2012 (03/22/2013)
• Unemployment rate by major worker group, February 2013 (03/12/2013)
• Volunteering declines in 2012 (02/26/2013)
• Illness-related work absences in January 2013 highest since February 2008 (02/19/2013)
• Unemployment rate 7.9 percent in January (02/05/2013)
• Union membership declines in 2012 (01/24/2013)
• Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2012 (01/23/2013)
• Unemployment by sex and age, December 2012 (01/08/2013)
• Women’s earnings by occupation, 2011 (01/02/2013)
• Employment and unemployment experience of the U.S. population in 2011 (12/27/2012)
• Unemployment rate edges down in November 2012 (12/11/2012)
• Overview of the labor force from 1950–2010 and projections to 2050 (12/03/2012)
• Women’s earnings, 1979–2011 (11/23/2012)
• Veterans in the civilian labor force, 2011 (11/09/2012)
• Employment increases in October 2012 (11/05/2012)
• Occupational employment by race and ethnicity, 2011 (10/26/2012)
• Median weekly earnings by age, sex, race, and ethnicity, third quarter 2012 (10/19/2012)
• Unemployment rate demographics, September 2012 (10/10/2012)
• Employee tenure in 2012 (09/20/2012)
• Unemployment and labor force participation rates down in August 2012 (09/11/2012)
• Racial and ethnic characteristics of the U.S. labor force, 2011 (09/05/2012)
• Employment status of displaced workers (08/28/2012)
• Youth employment in summer 2012 (08/22/2012)
• Employment and unemployment in July 2012 (08/06/2012)
• Weekly earnings of full-time workers by age and sex, second quarter 2012 (07/20/2012)
• Unemployment in June 2012 (07/10/2012)
• Unemployment among persons with a disability, 2011 (06/25/2012)
• Employment of persons with a disability, 2011 (06/12/2012)
• Education and occupations of the foreign born in 2011 (06/06/2012)
• The employment situation in May 2012 (06/04/2012)
• Employment status of the foreign born and native born by age, 2011 (05/29/2012)
• Employed Asians by occupation, 2008–2010 (05/10/2012)
• Unemployment among families, 2011 (05/08/2012)
• The employment situation in April 2012 (05/07/2012)
• Women as a percent of total employed in selected occupations, 2011 (05/01/2012)
• Employment status of parents, 2011 (04/27/2012)
• Length of job search for the unemployed (04/24/2012)
• Labor force participation among students and nonstudents, October 2011 (04/20/2012)
• Median weekly earnings by race, ethnicity, and occupation, first quarter 2012 (04/19/2012)
• Employment trends from two surveys (04/10/2012)
• The employment situation in March 2012 (04/09/2012)
• Working poor rate 7.2 percent in 2010 (04/05/2012)
• Employment Situation of Veterans — 2011 (03/23/2012)
• Payroll employment increases by 227,000 in February 2012 (03/12/2012)
• Characteristics of minimum wage workers in 2011 (03/06/2012)
• Work experience during 2010 (02/27/2012)
• Volunteer rate rises in 2011 (02/23/2012)
• Employment and unemployment in January 2012 (02/06/2012)
• Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States, 2011 (01/31/2012)
• Union membership, 2011 (01/30/2012)
• Median weekly earnings, fourth quarter 2011 (01/26/2012)
• Women’s earnings as a percent of men’s in 2010 (01/10/2012)
• Unemployment rate falls to 8.5 percent in December 2011 (01/09/2012)
• Educational attainment of women in the labor force, 1970–2010 (12/29/2011)
• Women in the labor force, 2010 (12/23/2011)
• Educational attainment and unemployment among Asians in the United States (12/14/2011)
• Asians in the U.S. labor force, 2008–2010 (12/06/2011)
• Unemployment rate falls to 8.6 percent in November 2011 (12/05/2011)
• Employment of veterans, 2010 (11/10/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.0 percent in October 2011 (11/07/2011)
• Median weekly earnings, third quarter 2011 (10/27/2011)
• Displaced workers by industry (10/12/2011)
• Unemployment in September 2011 (10/11/2011)
• Unemployment rates by race and ethnicity, 2010 (10/05/2011)
• Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010 (09/14/2011)
• Unemployment rate 9.1 percent in August 2011 (09/08/2011)
• Youth employment in July 2011 (08/26/2011)
• Unemployment in July 2011 (08/10/2011)
• Women’s earnings, 1979–2010 (07/22/2011)
• Median usual weekly earnings, by race, ethnicity, and education, second quarter, 2011 (07/21/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.2 percent in June 2011 (07/12/2011)
• Careers in solar power (06/29/2011)
• Labor force characteristics of persons with a disability in 2010 (06/28/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.1 percent in May 2011 (06/08/2011)
• Duration of unemployment, 1994–2010 (06/02/2011)
• Employed foreign-born and native-born persons by occupation, 2010 (06/01/2011)
• Unemployment rate at 9.0 percent in April 2011 (05/10/2011)
• Share of married-couple families with an employed mother at its lowest, 1994-2010 (05/06/2011)
• Median weekly earnings in first quarter 2011 by demographics (04/25/2011)
• High school grads not enrolled in college more likely to be in the labor force (04/12/2011)
• Unemployment in March 2011 (04/06/2011)
• Employment characteristics of families, 2010 (03/28/2011)
• Unemployment rates of veterans, 2010 (03/16/2011)
• Duration of unemployment in February 2011 (03/08/2011)
• Women’s earnings and employment by industry, 2009 (02/16/2011)
• Unemployment rate declines to 9.0 percent in January 2011 (02/09/2011)
• Volunteering in 2010 (01/28/2011)
• Union membership declines in 2010 (01/25/2011)
• Median weekly earnings for men and women in fourth quarter 2010 (01/24/2011)
• Unemployment in December 2010 (01/11/2011)
• Women in the labor force, 1970–2009 (01/05/2011)
• Fatal occupational injuries among volunteer workers, 2003–07 (12/30/2010)
• Work experience during 2009 (12/21/2010)
• Unemployment in November 2010 (12/07/2010)
• Long-term unemployment rate remains high in 2010 (11/17/2010)
• Unemployment in October 2010 (11/10/2010)
• Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2010 (10/25/2010)
• Demographics of the self-employed (10/22/2010)
• Unemployment rate demographics, September 2010 (10/13/2010)
• Employee tenure, January 2010 (09/27/2010)
• Unemployment in August 2010 (09/14/2010)
• Youth employment and unemployment in July 2010 (09/03/2010)
• Reemployment rates of displaced workers, January 2010 (09/02/2010)
• Employment among the disabled by age in 2009 (08/31/2010)
• Unemployment in July 2010 (08/11/2010)
• Demographics of multiple jobholding (08/09/2010)
• Demographics of Gulf War-era II veterans (08/05/2010)
• Usual weekly earnings in second quarter 2010 by education (07/26/2010)
• Employee union representation elections, 1997–2009 (07/09/2010)
• Women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio by age, 2009 (07/08/2010)
• Unemployment in June 2010 (07/07/2010)
• Employment and unemployment of fathers without spouses (06/18/2010)
• Unemployment in May 2010 (06/10/2010)
• Summertime school enrollment and employment among teens (06/02/2010)
• Families with unemployed members in 2009 (06/01/2010)
• Unemployment in April 2010 (05/12/2010)
• Labor force participation rates among mothers (05/07/2010)
• College enrollment up among 2009 high school grads (04/28/2010)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2010 by demographics (04/20/2010)
• Unemployment in March 2010 (04/06/2010)
• Unemployment rates for foreign-born workers, 2009 (03/24/2010)
• Disabled veterans and the labor force (03/17/2010)
• Unemployment in February 2010 (03/10/2010)
• Unemployment in January 2010 (02/17/2010)
• Volunteering on the rise: September 2008-September 2009 (02/05/2010)
• Union membership declines in 2009 (02/01/2010)
• Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by major occupational group and sex, 2009 (01/27/2010)
• States with highest multiple jobholding rates (01/26/2010)
• Long-term unemployment in December 2009 (01/14/2010)
• Work-experience unemployment rate, 2008 (01/06/2010)
• Labor force demographics, 2008 (01/05/2010)
• Unemployment in November 2009 (12/08/2009)
• Unemployment in October 2009 (11/10/2009)
• Earnings by age and sex, third quarter of 2009 (10/21/2009)
• Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 2008 (10/14/2009)
• Labor force participation of women and mothers, 2008 (10/09/2009)
• Demographics of New York City health care employment (10/07/2009)
• Unemployment in September 2009 (10/06/2009)
• Unemployment rate demographics, August 2009 (09/04/2009)
• Youth unemployment and employment in July 2009 (08/28/2009)
• Unemployment rates of men and women in July 2009 (08/10/2009)
• Women and men in management, professional, and related occupations, 2008 (08/07/2009)
• Women’s-to-men’s earnings ratio, 1979-2008 (07/31/2009)
• Education and usual weekly earnings for women and men, second quarter 2009 (07/17/2009)
• Unemployment and demographics in June 2009 (07/06/2009)
• Unemployment rate in May 2009 (06/09/2009)
• Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2008 (05/29/2009)
• Employment and married-couple families in 2008 (05/28/2009)
• Unemployment in April 2009 (05/12/2009)
• Flows into and out of employment in recent recessions (05/06/2009)
• 2008 high school grads and college enrollment (04/29/2009)
• Weekly earnings in first quarter 2009 by demographics (04/17/2009)
• Unemployment rate in March 2009 (04/06/2009)
• Foreign-born labor force and educational attainment in 2008 (04/03/2009)
• Education levels and unemployment at end of 2008 (04/01/2009)
• Foreign-born workers by region, 2008 (03/31/2009)
• Unemployment and foreign-born workers, 2008 (03/27/2009)
• Labor force participation in 2008 of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era (03/25/2009)
• Unemployment and veterans who served since September 2001 (03/23/2009)
• Unemployment and demographics in February 2009 (03/10/2009)
• Increase in unemployment rate in January 2009 (02/10/2009)
• Union membership by state, 2008 (02/03/2009)
• Union membership in 2008 (01/30/2009)
• Most frequent volunteer activities: fundraising, tutoring, teaching (01/26/2009)
• Earnings and education, fourth quarter 2008 (01/23/2009)
• Unemployment in December 2008 (01/13/2009)
• Wives earning more than their husbands, 1987-2006 (01/09/2009)
• Labor force participation rate of mothers, 1975-2007 (01/08/2009)
• Women and employment by industry (01/07/2009)
• Involuntary part-time work (01/06/2009)
• Working in 2007 (12/24/2008)
• Work-experience unemployment rate in 2007 (12/23/2008)
• Working full time, year round in 2007 (12/19/2008)
• Unemployment rates by sex, November 2008 (12/09/2008)
• Unemployment in October 2008 (11/10/2008)
• Women’s earnings by occupation in 2007 (10/31/2008)
• Earnings of women and men by race and ethnicity, 2007 (10/30/2008)
• Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s, 1979-2007 (10/29/2008)
• Weekly earnings in the third quarter of 2008 (10/21/2008)
• Multiple jobholding in States in 2007 (10/09/2008)
• Unemployment and demographics in September 2008 (10/07/2008)
• Employee tenure by industry, 2008 (10/01/2008)
• Employees with 10 years or more of tenure with the same employer, 2008 (09/29/2008)
• Unemployment in August 2008 (09/08/2008)
• Working poor and education in 2006 (09/04/2008)
• Summer 2008 labor force participation of youth (09/03/2008)
• Unemployment among youth, Summer 2008 (08/29/2008)
• Displaced workers’ earnings at new jobs, January 2008 (08/27/2008)
• Reason for job losses among displaced workers (08/22/2008)
• More seniors working full time (08/06/2008)
• Unemployment in July 2008 (08/04/2008)
• Labor force participation of seniors, 1948-2007 (07/29/2008)
• Earnings of bachelor’s degree recipients 10 years after graduation (07/22/2008)
• Earnings and education in the second quarter of 2008 (07/21/2008)
• The unemployment rate and beyond (07/11/2008)
• Unemployment rate unchanged in June 2008 (07/08/2008)
• Increase in unemployment rate in May 2008 (06/09/2008)
• Labor force participation of mothers with infants in 2007 (06/04/2008)
• Families and unemployment, 2007 (06/03/2008)
• Married-couple families and employment, 2007 (06/01/2008)
• Unemployment demographics, April 2008 (05/06/2008)
• Unemployment rate 26.9 percent among recent dropouts (04/30/2008)
• Recent high school graduates and labor force participation, October 2007 (04/29/2008)
• 2007 high school grads and college enrollment (04/28/2008)
• Unemployment in 2007 (04/23/2008)
• Labor force participation of veterans of World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam era (04/22/2008)
• Unemployment and young veterans, 2007 (04/11/2008)
• Unemployment rate up in March 2008 (04/07/2008)
• Occupations and foreign-born workers in 2007 (04/02/2008)
• Educational attainment of foreign born labor force (04/01/2008)
• Foreign-born workers by region, 2007 (03/31/2008)
• Foreign-born workers and unemployment, 2007 (03/27/2008)
• Unemployment rates by demographics, February 2008 (03/11/2008)
• Union membership by industry, 2007 (02/11/2008)
• Unemployment and age, January 2008 (02/05/2008)
• Education and volunteering (01/30/2008)
• Union membership by State, 2007 (01/29/2008)
• Union membership in 2007 (01/28/2008)
• Volunteering in 2007 (01/24/2008)
• Unemployment and labor force participation at the end of 2007 (01/08/2008)
• Work-experience unemployment rate in 2006 (01/02/2008)