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_01BE23B6.BEDFF6A0 BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1998 U.S. purchasing executives see business conditions improving in 1999, with 68 percent of those surveyed expecting higher revenues than in 1998 - though less robust growth than they reported a year ago, the National Association of Purchasing Management says. ... NAPM also released a semiannual outlook for the nonmanufacturing sector, which is broadly more optimistic than the manufacturing one. ... (Daily Report, page A-5)_____United States manufacturers are less optimistic about the coming year, expecting revenues will rise at a slower pace than in 1998, while nonmanufacturing companies are more upbeat. ... (New York Times, page C7). Despite the country's economic prosperity, data from the Census Bureau's 1997 Current Population Survey show that single mothers and displaced homemakers have low employment rates and are working in the lowest paying jobs, according to a report by Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment. ... (Daily Report, page A-2). The proportion of the U.S. population under age 65 with employment-based health coverage grew from 63.5 percent at the end of 1996, to 64.2 percent at the end of 1997, but the number of uninsured people grew from 17.7 percent to 18.3 percent over the same period, the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds. ... (Daily Labor Report, page A-7). "Housing has a tremendous impact on the economy," said an economist at Norwest Bank in Minneapolis. "People have said one out of every six jobs in America is housing or related industries. The largest user of copper in the world, or at least in America, is housing. The demand for lumber, aluminum, carpets, all these things, are affected by housing." Right now, that demand is sky high, helping the economy by offsetting some of the drop in demand for exports from ailing Asian economies. That's' because the percentage of Americans owning their own homes is at an all-time high of 66.8 percent. That's an increase from the 1997 rate of 65.7 percent, which broke a record set back in 1980, when the rate stood at 65.6 percent. Housing experts credit the strong economic combination of low inflation and low interest rates for the high ownership. ... (Washington Post "Trendlines" feature by Tim Smart, page C11). Age bias is still a fact of life in Corporate America, a graph in Business Week (Dec. 14, page 8) indicates. A survey of 35-to-60-year-old job-seekers showed that the older they were, the fewer interviews they got, and the longer it took them to find a job. The survey was by Exe-U-Net. Producer Prices of Finished Goods were probably unchanged in November, after falling 0.2 percent in October, says Business Week (Dec. 14, page 175). 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