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National data from The State of Working America 2008/2009
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Jobs
Unemployment rate by age, January 1948 to July 2009
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Part-time employment as a percent of total employment, January 1973 to August 2008
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Employment rates by gender (persons age 25-54), 1979-2008q1
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Long-term unemployed as a share of unemployed, and the unemployment rate, 1979 to 2008q2
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Unemployment rate, January 1948 to August 2008
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Gross Job gains and losses, 1990q2 to 2007q4
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Labor force and total non-farm employment, 1979-August 2008
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Wage and Compensation Trends
Real and current values of the minimum wage, 1960-2007
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Share of all workers earning poverty-level hourly wages, 1973-2007
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Dimensions of wage inequality, log wage differentials, 1973-2007
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Hourly wage decile cutoffs for all workers, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Hourly wage decile cutoffs for male workers, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Hourly wage decile cutoffs for female workers, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers, 1947-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Real hourly wage for all by education, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Men's real hourly wage by education, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Women's real hourly wage by education, 1973-2007 (2007 dollars)
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Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (25 years and older), annual averages (2007 dollars)
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Estimated wage premium for college and high school graduates, 1973-2007
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Productivity and median and average compensation, 1973-2007
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Decomposition of total and within-group wage inequality, 1973-2007
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Change in private sector employer-provided health insurance coverage, 1979-2006
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Change in private sector employer-provided pension insurance coverage, 1979-2006
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Prices
Consumer price index — all urban consumers (CPI-U) (1982-84=100)
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Consumer price index research series using current methods (CPI-U-RS), (1977=100)
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