Bureau of Labor Statistics

URL: http://www.bls.gov/

Press releases on employment and unemployment, earnings, employment cost index, consumer prices, producer prices, productivity, collective bargaining, and union membership
Time series on employment, prices, and productivity
The Data option under the main web page is arranged by various retrieval options; these options are subdivided by subject

Use the Search option for a subject approach to various retrieval options
Web pages which combine all retrieval options include
- Collective Bargaining
- Consumer Expenditure Survey
- Consumer Price Index (change in cost of living)
- Covered Employment and Wages (unemployment insurance)
- Current Employment Statistics (employment, earnings)
- Current Population Survey (employment, unemployment, earnings)
- Employee Benefits Survey
- Employment Cost Trends
- Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities
- Labor Productivity
- Local Area Unemployment
- Mass Layoffs
- National Compensation Survey (wages by occupation for metropolitan areas)
- National Longitudinal Survey (demographic and household characteristics)
- Occupational Compensation Survey
- Occupational Employment Statistics (wages by occupation)
- Producer Price Index
- State and Area Current Employment Statistics (employment, hours, earnings)
BLS Handbook of Methods
- History and methodology of labor force, employment, earnings, productivity, safety, and price index data
- Available in HTML or Adobe Acrobat format
Monthly Labor Review
- Full text of articles on labor topics and legislation beginning 1997
Report on the American Workforce
- Annual report with in-depth focus on different issues (e.g. "just in time" supplies, work time v. leisure time)
- Appendix summarizes employment, unemployment, and earnings data on a national level
- HTML interface with pdf text