Bureau of Labor Statistics news and information

Healthcare added 2,500 jobs in July, a slower growth pace that was consistent was the relatively sluggish national job hiring trend for the month.
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Hospital consumer prices barely budged upward last month, just one month after they recorded the largest one-month drop since the federal government began recording the price indices 16 years ago.
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Growth in healthcare jobs slowed to levels not seen since January, primarily because hospitals shed 5,900 jobs for the month, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted figures released Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Consumer prices for hospital services dropped 0.7% in April, the largest one-month decline since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics first reported the figures in January 1997. The drop follows a 0.4% increase the prior month, figures for the BLS Consumer Price Index show. In April 2012, hospital...
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The acute-care hospital Producer Price Index dropped 0.6% in April, preliminary data show. The decline is the largest one-month slide for the hospital inflation measure since January 2004, the first month for which data are available.
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Job creation at physician offices rebounded in April and helped contribute to 19,000 new healthcare jobs in April, but the figure represents a second month that the sector made a relatively weak contribution to the job market, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Hospital consumer prices increased 0.4% last month following the 0.8% gain in February, newly released figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show.
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The acute-care hospital Producer Price Index, one federal measure of inflation, increased 0.1% last month, preliminary figures show, slightly slower than the 0.2% average monthly growth during the prior year.
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Healthcare wasn't immune to a slowdown in overall U.S. job creation in March. The sector created 6,900 fewer jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Hospital consumer prices increased 0.8% last month after the prior month's 0.2% rise, newly released federal figures show.
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