Bureau of Labor Statistics news and information

The federal government's jobs report last month left many eager to find out if the next report would again show weak gains or even losses in hospital employment in spite of durable growth in the healthcare sector at large.
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The Cleveland Clinic is in the process of cutting $330 million from its budget for next year—a move that could result in an unspecified number of employee layoffs and thousands of early retirements.
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Hospital consumer prices spiked 1.9% in August, the largest one-month increase since the Bureau of Labor Statistics first collected the data 16 years ago.
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Healthcare is still a reliable jobs engine amid an otherwise feeble recovery in the labor market, according to the government's employment snapshot for August.
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Healthcare added 32,700 jobs in August, and a revision to July's numbers increased job creation for the sector by more than four times what was previously reported.
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The acute-care hospital Producer Price Index increased 0.2% for the second straight month in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The increase is the third month that the Producer Price Index for acute-care...
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Eight years after leaving the AFL-CIO, the United Food and Commercial Workers will re-affiliate with the labor federation, delivering a blow to the remaining members of Change to Win, including Service Employees International Union and its 150,000 members who are healthcare workers.
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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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