BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1997
The May 1997 issue of the AARP Bulletin contains a profile of
Commissioner Abraham based on an interview -- "Custodian of the CPI:
Low-Profile Bureaucrat Stands Her Ground on Index."
An editorial in the Washington Post, "Ducking the Hard Ones," says
that budget "negotiators had been prepared to propose a reduction so
small as barely to be perceptible in the annual cost-of-living
adjustments that keep inflation from eroding Social Security benefits
or lifting people into higher income tax brackets. Tiny though it
was, it would have set -- or broken -- an important precedent and
helped to spread the deficit-reduction burden in small amounts across
the entire society ...."_____On the Post's op-ed page, James K.
Glassman says, in "The Budget Deal: Kill It," that the CBO "windfall"
meant that "Social Security cost-of-living adjustments would not have
to be pared by 0.15 percentage points ...."
USA Today looks into the motivation for temporary work in its page 1B
graph. Factors that part-time and temporary workers say motivated
them to seek their type of employment include: enhance career
opportunities (76 percent); learn new skills (73 percent); work
flexible hours (61 percent); transition to a new career (44 percent);
and recent job loss (35 percent). Source is Interim Services.
DUE OUT TOMORROW:
Productivity and Costs: First Quarter 1997 (Preliminary)
