- Why don’t we use cumulative inflation to show the true effect of the destruction of our purchasing power? https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl 67 comments economics
- Food for thought: $120/ barrel of oil today is equivalent to $90/ barrel of oil in 2008. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=90&year1=200801&year2=202201 6 comments energy
- Black Unemployment Up to 7.7% https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/lns14000006?include_graphs=false&output_type=column&years_option=all_years 5 comments politics
- US Unemployment rate in the mid 4% range, yet we see little wage inflation... https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/lns14000000 46 comments economy
- Preliminary data shows the US economy added 161,000 private sector jobs in October 2016 http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth 16 comments politics
- In George Bush senior's term, he raised unemployment by 1.9%. Clinton lowered it by 3.1% and W then raised it by 3.6% leaving Obama with the rate that rose 2.8% the previous year. He finally brought it back to 7.8%. Am I the only one who sees that the conservative plan never works? http://data.bls.gov/pdq/surveyoutputservlet 22 comments politics
- Employment to population ratio drops to 58.3%. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/lns12300000 14 comments politics
- 800,000 jobs lost per month. Obama fixed it. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth 9 comments politics
- [Graph] The employment-population ratio has declined roughly 4% since 2008 - Bureau of Labor Statistics Data http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/lns12300000 8 comments economy
- Here is a neat fast government site that will generate tables for you about how much people get paid. http://data.bls.gov/oes/ 3 comments web_design
- Private sector employment growth for 2010 so far = 847,000 jobs. If recent trends keep up, we may pass 1m private sector jobs in 2010 - more than the entire 8 years of GWB. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ce 6 comments politics
- The Bush Years ... less than 1% job growth. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/servlet/surveyoutputservlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=ce_cesbref1 10 comments politics