BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1997 The BLS experimental geometric mean version of the CPI rose 2 percent in the year ended in August, the agency reports. The official CPI-U has risen 2.2 percent in the year ended in August ....(Daily Labor Report, page A-4). In an article about the growing ranks of older workers who have spent most of their lives as a homemaker, the Wall Street Journal (page A1) includes: "No one charts these homemakers turned laborers, incidental as they are to the economy. But a continuing study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, called the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, indicates that 240,000 women age 55 to 69 will take a job this year after not having worked for at least 20 years. Thousands more will look without success ...."
