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  "Res ipsa loquitur."
(The facts speak for themselves.)
 

Aggregate SAT Scores

HR Live lay-off report data-base

Washington Post lay-off articles

Network World Lay-Off articles
 


  "The best guarantee of the full weight & assured fineness of coins can, in the nature of the case, be given by the government itself, since it is known to & recognized by everyone & has the power to prevent & punish crimes against the coinage.   Governments have therefore usually accepted the obligation of stamping the coins necessary for trade.   But they have so often & so greatly misused their power that economizing individuals eventually almost forgot the fact that a coin is nothing but a piece of precious metal of fixed fineness & weight, for which fineness & full weight the honesty & rectitude of the mint constitute a guarantee." --- Carl Menger 1871 _Principles of Economics_ (translated by James Dingwall & Bert F. Hoselitz) pp 282-283  


Monthly Consumer Price Adjuster 1913 to Present (part 1)

Monthly Consumer Price Adjuster 1913 to Present (part 2)
Monthly Consumer Price Adjuster 1913 to Present (part 3, focus on most recent years)
CPI - PPI spread
CPI - PPI (focus on recent years)
BLS CPI data

 

Employment


Graphs Related to Employment, UnEmployment, and Earnings
(from BLS data except where noted)

Components of USA Civilian Working-Age Population
 

USA UnEmployment Rates

USA Labor Under-Utilization Rates


USA UnEmployment Rates: Recent

USA Labor Under-Utilization Rates

USA Number Unemployed & Actively Seeking Work

USA Labor Under-Utilization Rates


Employment-Population Ratios &
Labor Force Participation Rates

LFPR by Age (annual)

LFPR (focus on recent)

Annual Employment-Population Ratio
(1. all age ranges)

Annual Employment-Population Ratio by age
(2. narrow age ranges 16-55)

Annual Employment-Population Ratio by age
(3. general age ranges)

Not in Labor Force
Bodies shopped as percentage of total employment table

Employment of Production Workers by Industry

Software Products: Production Workers (SIC1)

Software Products: Production Workers

IT "production workers": Products vs. Body Shops

Numbers Employed by Industry 4

Numbers Employed by Industry 3

Hours and Earnings

Annual Starting Salaries of New Grads (from NACE)

Starting Salaries of New Grads (from NACE)

Earnings per Hour (base 1913)

Average Weekly Hours Worked

Employment/Unemployment by Occupation

Numbers UnEmployed by General Occupation

Numbers Employed by General Occupation

General Occupations

Computer

Driver & Farming

Engineering

Management

Science

Trades, etc.

Verbal
IT Work-Force
(Take the graphs in the above group with a large grain of salt due to tiny sample sizes used by BLS to derive the figures.
As can clearly be seen from the IT Work-Force graph, redefinitions of the occupational categories from time to time can wreak havoc with any attempt to find base-lines and interpret economic effects over time.)

Duration of UnEmployment

Duration of UnEmployment

Duration of UnEmployment while seeking Full-Time Work

Numbers UnEmployed by Duration

Duration of Unemployment

States
California County UnEmployment Rates Florida County UnEmployment Rates
Florida MSA UnEmployment Rates Florida UnEmployment Rate
Annual State UnEmployment Rates Annual State Employment-Population Ratios
State UnEmployment Rates BLS map of unemployment rates by county

Lay-Off Announcements Compiled by Challenger, Gray & Christmas
Annual Quarterly Monthly Year Over Year

Job Ad Tallies from Dice

OSes & Programming Languages

Permanent & Body Shop

Institute for Supply Management

ISM employment indices

 

Unemployment Insurance Claims & Related Graphs
from US Department of Labor

US Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims (graph part 1)

US Continuing Unemployment Insurance Claims (comparable weeks)
US Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims (graph part 2)
Unemployment Insurance Claims Min & Max
US Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims (graph part 3)
US Initial UnEmployment Insurance Claims (comparable weeks)

Insured UnEmployment Rate

Insured Unemployment Rate (comparable weeks)
DoL ETA Chart-Book

 
  "If you don't fail regularly you are not trying hard enough things." --- Ivan Sutherland  

 

Science & Engineering Degrees
from US Department of Educationism
National Center for Education Statistics
Digest of Education Statistics

Total Bachelor's Degrees Earned

Total Degrees Earned

Total Computer & Information Science Degrees Earned

Total C&IS Degrees Earned by US Citizens

STEM Degrees Earned by US Citizens

Professional Degrees Earned

Percentages of STEM Bachelor's Degrees Earned by US Citizens

Percentages of STEM Master's Degrees Earned by US Citizens

Percentages of STEM Doctor's Degrees Earned by US Citizens

Percentages of Total STEM Degrees Earned by US Citizens

 
 
  "[T]he value of inactivity to most laborers is much less than is generally believed.   The occupations of by far the great majority of men afford enjoyment, are thus themselves true satisfactions of needs, & would be practised, although perhaps in smaller measure or in a modified manner, even if men were not forced by lack of means to exert their abilities.   The exercising of his abilities is a need for every normal human being." --- Carl Menger 1871 _Principles of Economics_ (translated by James Dingwall & Bert F. Hoselitz) pp 171-172  


H-1B visa cap & number issued each year
Characteristics of Specialty Occupation Workers 2000 (pdf)
Characteristics of Specialty Occupation Workers 2001 (pdf)
Characteristics of Specialty Occupation Workers 2002 (pdf)
Characteristics of Specialty Occupation Workers 2003 (pdf)
Characteristics of Specialty Occupation Workers 2004 (pdf)
Characteristics of Specialty Occupation Workers 2005 (pdf)
 
H-1B caps & visas approved
Fiscal
Year
Base
Cap
Visas
Approved
Cut-Off
Date
Renewals
199865K84KnoneNA
1999115K134,4111999-04-16NA
2000115K136,7872000-03-21120,853
2001195K201,079none130,127
2002195K103,584none93,953
2003195K105,314none112,026
200485K130,4972004-02-17156,921
200585K116,9272004-10-01150,204
Fiscal
Year
Base
Cap
Visas
Approved
Cut-Off
Date
Renewals
new H-1B visas by degree
year no HS diploma HS <1 year college 1+ year college Associate's total < bachelor's Bachelor's Master's Doctor's Professional total > bachelor's unknown total year
1999            134,4111999
20005542881581,2906962,98672,19635,9908,7823,01347,78513,820136,7872000
20012478952841,3761,1813,983116,55859,35715,1215,77280,250288201,0792001
20021698061898496422,65550,33230,11914,2206,11250,451146103,5842002
20031488221226235342,24951,14130,61214,4486,77151,83193105,3142003
20041236901374214321,80362,16345,70714,0066,66366,376155130,4972004
2005107440773583631,34549,60445,8905,88314,09765,870108116,9272005

Additional sources: Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report (pdf)
alternate link
Department of State annual report Classes of Non-Immigrants Issued Visas

Admissions by Visa Class (graph)

H Visas Issued (graph)

crude/coarse graphs based on data from Conference Board press releases

Economic Indices

Help-Wanted On-Line Ads

Help-Wanted ad index (series discontinued)

Consumer Confidence

Related materials and links to sources:
Leading Economic Indicators
Help-Wanted On-Line Advertising
Help-Wanted Advertising Index
Consumer Confidence Index

Conference Board press releases

authoritative Conference Board data series available for purchase

Secondary Sources

St. Louis Fed CB Help-Wanted Index (graph)
more from St. Louis Fed
pdf from St. Louis Fed
Leading economic indicator index was revised in 2005 July.


Are jobs plentiful or hard to get?

Ed Yardeni, Oak Associates
See also: CBS.MarketWatch economic indicators & calendar
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/economy/economic_calendar.asp?siteid=mktw

Conference Board Help-Wanted Advertising Index 1980-


"The Index is pegged at 100 points in 1999 Q4." --- Wendover-Global Insight IT Spending Index
http://www.globalinsight.com/Highlight/HighlightDetail742.htm
graphs
http://www.globalinsight.com/Highlight/HighlightDetail842.htm

wealth and political affiliation

Aretha Sims: MacroEconomic Policy Research 
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Research & Data
http://www.chicagofed.org/economic_research_and_data/index.cfm

Employment Research Data Center


War Casualties

 

Braddock's Field 1755 July 09: The British lost 456 soldiers with 521 wounded.   The French lost 23 and had 20 wounded.

Lexington 1775 April 19: 8 killed, about 10 wounded on the Green.   As they returned to Boston, the British were under constant assault from Massachusetts militiamen, who killed 73 and wounded 174; 26 were missing.   The Americans suffered 49 dead, 39 wounded, and 5 missing.

Antietam, MD: "On 1862-09-17, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of [NorthWestern] Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam [about 50 miles north of Washington, DC].   During the battle, 23,100 were killed, wounded or captured..." --- _NY Times_
23,100 casualties at Antietam, MD
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20040917.html
Civil War Casualty Counts
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm
Civil War Statistics by Battle

Summary Statistics by War
Stats and links from 1945 to the present
Time-Line of Terrorism
Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the 20th Century
WW2: Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 to 27: The Germans claimed to have taken 6,450 men prisoner. The Poles took 378 casualties, with 101st Airborne suffering 2,110 and 82nd Airborne suffering 1,432. The British ground forces suffered some 5,354 casualties, while the German casualties, like their unit strengths are almost impossible to calculate accurately, but are likely to range somewhere between 4K & 8K. Five Victoria Crosses were awarded, as were 2 posthumous Medals of Honour."
29,557 service members (all services) died in battle, or from battle-related injuries, during the Korean War. 4184 died from non-combat causes in the Korean theater. 92,934 were wounded in action seriously enough to be evacuated. (This number does not include those lightly wounded who were treated at battalion/regimental aid stations and returned to duty.) 7,245 service members became Prisoners-of-War.
"In Rwanda in 1994, Hutu tribesmen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent victims, mostly members of the Tutsi tribe, hacking them to pieces with machetes, then stacking the corpses in piles like so much cordwood.   The Hutus butchered 800K men, women and children in 100 days, averaging 8,000 murders per day in 'the fastest, most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century'."

Death by Government
170M people murdered by their own governments during the 20th century.
1917-1991, Soviet Union murdered about 62M of its own people.
During Mao Zedong's reign, 35,236,000+ Chinese citizens were murdered.
Hitler's Nazis murdered 21M of its citizens and citizens in nations they conquered.
Pol Pot killed 750K to 2.3M
60M lives lost in war during the 20th century
US Military Service Fatalities 1980 through 2006
 


Carl Menger's _Principles of Economics_

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk's _Capital and Interest_

Ludwig von Mises _Economic Freedom & Interventionism_

Ludwig von Mises _Human Action_

Markets and Data (more graphs)


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