This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD82A4.B1A8DDA0 BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1998 After years of spectacular growth that has astounded the most optimistic analysts, the U.S. economic machine is in no danger of sputtering to a standstill. But the twin imbalances caused by worker shortages and the Asian economic crisis are expected to slow the expansion somewhat. In a special report examining regional labor markets, analysts contacted by BNA say the U.S. Pacific region will be particularly hard hit by less demand for its products as Asia's economic downturn continues. Analysts expect job growth in the Pacific region, which has been rapid, to slow considerably. Worker shortages, increasingly a problem throughout the United States, are acute in the Midwest and South. Growth in these regions will slow because businesses no longer can find enough workers to meet their needs.... (Daily Labor Report, special report). Led by a surge in business equipment production, industrial production rose 0.1 percent in April, the second increase in as many months, the Federal Reserve reports. Industrial production has risen 3.8 percent in the last year.... (Daily Labor Report, page D-1)_____The factory-use rate, which measures the amount of industrial capacity in use, fell slightly in April.... (New York Times, May 16, page B14)_____Industrial production rose a scant 0.1 percent, hobbled by shrinking utility output. But manufacturing output increased 0.3 percent, after declines of 0.2 percent in March and 0.4 percent in February.... (Wall Street Journal, page A2). A trial run for the next census forecasts trouble in 2000.... Results of a "dress rehearsal" for the year 2000 census confirm that nearly half the population doesn't want to be counted, at least partly because people don't trust the government. Since April 18, the Census Bureau has conducted preliminary tests in Sacramento, Calif., 12 South Carolina counties, and on a Menominee Indian reservation in northeastern Wisconsin. The results: Just 53 percent of those receiving mailed questionnaires in Sacramento responded. For the South Carolina counties, the figure was 54 percent, and, for Menominee, 40 percent.... The dress rehearsal results are especially disappointing because the bureau had gone to some lengths to encourage a higher return.... 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