Thanks for this, I've forwarded it to the crashlist but without attribution:
in future do you want me to forward it in your name, or would you like me to
sub you to the List?
Mark Jones
http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
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From: "Richardson_D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:45 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:18270] BLS Daily Report
> BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2000
>
> RELEASED TODAY: A total of 1.7 million injuries and illnesses that
required
> recuperation away from work beyond the day of the incident were reported
in
> private industry workplaces during 1998. The total number of these cases
> has declined in each year since 1992. In contrast, the number of injuries
> and illnesses reported with only restricted work activity rather than days
> away recuperating has increased during this same time period by nearly 70
> percent to over 1,000,000 cases in 1998. ... Since 1993, truck drivers
have
> experienced the largest number of injuries and illnesses with time away
from
> work.
>
> The inflation adjusted weekly earnings of most U.S. workers climbed 3.7
> percent over the year ended in the first quarter of 2000, according to
BLS.
> In current dollars or without adjustment for inflation, the weekly pay of
> the nation's 98.2 million full-time wage and salary employees rose 6.9
> percent between the first quarters of 1999 and 2000. The CPI-U increased
> 3.2 percent over the same period, making the real pay gain 3.7 percent.
...
> (Daily Labor Report, page D-25).
>
> Higher prices for oil imports and a Boeing strike that lowered aircraft
> exports helped widen the U.S. trade deficit to a record $29.2 billion in
> February, the Commerce Department says. ... The Secretary of Commerce
says
> that about half the increase is due to higher petroleum prices. ...
(Daily
> Labor Report, page D-1; Washington Post, page E3)_____The United States
> trade deficit widened to a record in February, elevated by surging oil
> prices and growing demand for imports. The deficit in goods and services
> trade grew in February as imports climbed to a record and exports fell for
a
> second consecutive month. ... (New York Times, page C14; USA Today, page
> 3B)_____The U.S. trade deficit, continuing its record-breaking pace of
last
> year, widened in February as high oil prices led a big jump in imports.
> Aside from oil prices and Boeing labor woes, economists said the
underlying
> cause of the expanded deficit remains the same strong U.S. economic growth
> and consumer demand coupled with weak economic growth overseas, said a
> National Association of Manufacturers economist. ... (Wall Street
Journal,
> page A2).
>
> Base salaries were expected to rise at about 4.4 percent this year, or
about
> the same rate as last year, as more companies use stock options and profit
> sharing to supplement pay. An American Compensation Association survey
> showed that 63 percent of the companies offered stock-based plans to
> employees in 1999. Almost 57.2 percent extended stock options to hourly
and
> nonunion employees (Washington Post, page E17).
>
> For years, antipoverty efforts have stressed work, education, and marriage
> as the way up the economic ladder for the single, jobless mothers who
seemed
> to account for the bulk of urban poverty. Now a new analysis of census
data
> shows that in New York City, in the midst of an economic boom, poverty
rates
> rose sharply among just the kind of families with children that were
> supposed to be safe: those that include two parents, a worker, and a
> household head with more than a high school degree. Comparing three years
> ended in 1998 with the last comparable stretch of prosperity, in the late
> 1980's, the study found that the overall rate of poverty in New York City
> among families with children climbed to 32.3 percent, from 29.3 percent,
> despite a rise in education and employment that would have been expected
to
> reduce poverty. The official federal poverty threshold is $13,133 for a
> family of three. The survey was released by the nonprofit Community
Service
> Society of New York and suggests a collision of several trends: the
growing
> gap between rich and poor, a surge in immigration, and, as welfare changes
> push recipients off the rolls, increasing competition for low-end jobs
with
> eroding wages. ... (New York Times, page A25).
>
> The Labor Department commissioned a new survey to research the impact of
the
> Family and Medical Leave Act, an effort that it hopes will be under way in
> the next couple of months. The survey will be conducted by Westat Inc.,
> which released a survey in October 1995 that found approximately
two-thirds
> of employers covered under the 1993 law had changed their personnel
policies
> to comply with it, mostly by increasing the reasons for which leave can be
> taken. The new survey will include research into how family and medical
> leave can be made more accessible and affordable. It is intended to
update
> the 1995 research on the law's effect on businesses and employees
conducted
> for the now-defunct Commission on Family and Medical Leave. ... (Daily
> Labor Report, page A-9).
>
> The Washington Post carries an obituary for Rudolph Mendelssohn, 85, who
> spent 40 years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and retired as assistant
> commissioner of the Office of Systems and Standards in 1980. ...
>
> DUE OUT TOMORROW: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment: March
> 2000
>
>
