Jobs in the U.S.

Over this past year, Governor Brownback has hosted seven summits focused on job creation in Kansas. “These summits will bring together stakeholders involved in the various engines of the Kansas economy to openly exchange ideas on what the state can do to help their industries grow and create jobs,” Governor Brownback said. Tonight, President Obama will address the nation regarding his plan to increase jobs. Many agencies study the economy and the employment situation. The President, Congress, state governors and state legislatures use the variety of tools these agencies create to develop policy, laws and regulations. Read on to see some of the tools used by Federal, state and local governments to track employment.

NATIONWIDE

News release from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics on August’s employment:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jec.htm

Overview of the 2007-2009 Recession:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/04/art1full.pdf

Current Monthly Employment Statistics (since 1981):
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesregrec.htm

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Personal Income National data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis:
http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm

Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) from the Department of Federal Reserve:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/32241

Update: President Obama's 9/8/2011 jobs speech to the joint Congressional session:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/08/american-jobs-act

STATE LEVEL

Indicators of the Kansas Economy by Kansas, Inc.:
http://www.kansasinc.org/pubs/working/IKE%20-%20March%202011.pdf

Kansas Wage Survey:
http://www.dol.ks.gov/lmis/wagesurvey/ws2010/wagesurvey_2010.html

Monthly Labor Report:
http://www.dol.ks.gov/HOME/NewsReleases/mlr.html

Annual State of Labor from the Secretary of Labor:
http://www.dol.ks.gov/home/NewsReleases/state.html

2010 Job Vacancies in Kansas Survey:
http://www.dol.ks.gov/LMIS/jobvacancy/jvs2010/jvs2010.html

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Review:
http://www.dol.ks.gov/LMIS/uinewslet/lmr.html#unemploy_insurance_newsletters or
http://www.kspace.org/handle/1984/11882

Kansas Occupational Outlook:
http://www.dol.ks.gov/lmis/projections/projections.html

Kansas County Profile Reports (including 2010 employment statistics) from the University of Kansas’ Institute for Policy and Social Research:
http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/kcced/profiles/

County Wage Comparison tools from Wichita State’s Center for Economic Development and Business Research:
http://www.cedbr.org/content/2011/2010_County_Look-up.xlsx

U.S. State and County Unemployment Rate Comparisons (graph) from the U.S. Department of Labor:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=state&tdim=true&tstart=631152000000&tunit=M&tlen=243&hl=en&dl=en

Article contact: Kim Harp