Part of the Issues in Labor Statistics series, this report details consumer spending for vacation traveling. According to this study based on data gathered in 1997, Americans take more expensive trips in the summer months than during the winter, spending, on average, $776 during the summer and $692 during the winter. Vacationers also spend more on food and alcohol during the summer. Pleasure trips...

The Census Bureau report, Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Health Insurance, 1993 to 1995 provides comprehensive information on the characteristics of people with and without health insurance. Key findings show Southerners as the population most likely to experience one or more months without health insurance and suburban dwellers as the least likely to lose continuous health insurance when...

The BLS has placed the tables for the 1995 Employee Benefits in Medium and Large Private Establishments survey online. Tables are available in both text and .pdf format. Contents include: work schedules, paid time off, and family leave; disability benefits; medical, dental, and vision care; defined benefit plans; and flexible benefits plans and reimbursement accounts.

According to Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, 1986-98 from the US BLS, employer compensation costs for retirement benefits in the private sector accounted for 8.5 percent of total compensation in 1998, compared to 5.4 percent of total compensation in 1966.

The Census Bureau has released this report based on the March 1998 Current Population Survey. Given all the press in 1998 on America's booming economy, it should come as no surprise that the report contains good news. For the third consecutive year, households in the United States experienced an annual increase in their real median income while the poverty rate fell from 13.7 percent in 1996 to...

This press release from the US Census Bureau announces that the number of Americans living under the poverty level dropped to 12.7 percent in 1998. This marks the fourth year in a row in which the median household income has risen. The reports, Money Income in the United States: 1998 and Poverty in the United States: 1998 break the data down demographically and highlight some of the more inclusive...