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Challenger, Gray & Christmas lay-off announcements	Conference Board (leading economic indicators, job ad index, consumer confidence
Consumer Price Index	Employment Graphs
Education	UnEmployment Insurance
Visas	War Casualties
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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)
Employment of Production Workers by Industry
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

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
1998	65K	84K	none	NA
1999	115K	134,411	1999-04-16	NA
2000	115K	136,787	2000-03-21	120,853
2001	195K	201,079	none	130,127
2002	195K	103,584	none	93,953
2003	195K	105,314	none	112,026
2004	85K	130,497	2004-02-17	156,921
2005	85K	116,927	2004-10-01	150,204
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													134,411	1999
2000	554	288	158	1,290	696	2,986	72,196	35,990	8,782	3,013	47,785	13,820	136,787	2000
2001	247	895	284	1,376	1,181	3,983	116,558	59,357	15,121	5,772	80,250	288	201,079	2001
2002	169	806	189	849	642	2,655	50,332	30,119	14,220	6,112	50,451	146	103,584	2002
2003	148	822	122	623	534	2,249	51,141	30,612	14,448	6,771	51,831	93	105,314	2003
2004	123	690	137	421	432	1,803	62,163	45,707	14,006	6,663	66,376	155	130,497	2004
2005	107	440	77	358	363	1,345	49,604	45,890	5,883	14,097	65,870	108	116,927	2005

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

Rather than admit to an excess, 19K visas issued in FY1998 were counted against FY1999.
Rather than admit to an excess, some visas issued in FY2000 were counted against FY2001.
For FY2004, 63K visas were approved of those received before the 2004-02-17 cut-off; later, 2K cases received between 2004 April 1 and 2004 September 30, submitted for FY2005, were rolled back and allocated against FY2004.
6,100 unused H-1B1 visas from FY2006 were rolled over (added to) the total for FY2007

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

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

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)

Challenger, Gray & Christmas lay-off announcements	Conference Board (leading economic indicators, job ad index, consumer confidence
Consumer Price Index	Employment Graphs
Education
Visas	War Casualties
jgo Reading Room	jgo Resume
jgo Econ News Bits home	Kermit's home page

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