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Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the unit of the United States Department of Labor which is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the field of labor economics and statistics.
Indices and statistics produced by the BLS include:
- Consumer Price Index
- Inflation
- Unemployment rate
- Payroll employment
- Average hourly earnings
- Producer Price Index[?]
- Employment Cost Index[?]
- Employer Cost for Employee Compensation[?]
- Productivity[?]
- U.S. Import Price Index[?]
- Statistics on wages[?], earnings[?], and benefits by area, occupation, and industry
- Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage (http://www.bls.gov/)
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