EPI, a think tank that focuses on economic issues, has recently created this data collection. Users can view "nine tables providing recently updated figures and statistics on the labor market, family income, prices, GDP, wages, poverty, trade, the budget deficit, and interest rates" in the Data Card, or browse a larger collection of historical labor market and income data in the Data Zone proper....

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.

This site hosts the US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) preliminary data file for the survey "Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty" for academic year 1996-97, part of the 1995 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). "The file includes the following data by institution: number of full-time instructional...

In many parts of the United States, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the high cost of living. Some of this can be due to rising real estate costs and the like and a number of organizations have worked to craft living wage legislation in a number of cities. This Living Wage calculator helps visitors estimate the cost of living in their community or...

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...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) posts this publication online, with sections downloadable as .pdf files. The release, the National Compensation Survey, is a redesign of BLS' compensation statistics to reflect the workplace of the 21st century. From the main page, users can access the full .pdf-format text of the survey results as well as a summary, and a wealth of other related sites and...

Several new items were released this week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this one resource of the four (available in .pdf format) might be particularly interesting to researchers. The first report gives mean hourly and weekly earnings and hours for selected occupations in private industry and government for 1999.

Several new items were released this week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this one resource of the four (available in .pdf format) might be particularly interesting to researchers. New 1999 occupational wages data from nine regions, including the Middle Atlantic, Mountain, Pacific, and New England, can be accessed from the third URL.

In this working paper, Joel Perlmann, Levy Institute Research Professor of History at Bard College, examines whether today's Mexican immigrants will be as successful as past immigrants in "catching up" with the native American population. According to the report, Mexicans comprise the largest immigrant group in this country and are the prime example of a migrant group entering American society at...