Comments on: Chamber Of Commerce: Free Choice Act Is A ‘Firestorm Bordering On Armageddon’ http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/02/chamber-firestorm/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jps http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/02/chamber-firestorm/comment-page-1/#comment-3062 jps Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:16:53 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/02/chamber-firestorm/#comment-3062 <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pR6b5LirKkv-oUbbktTBiPA" rel="nofollow">Mean hours worked spreadsheet and graph.</a> Thank you, BLS economists, for keeping the data in your computers even though you are forbidden from publishing them, so we can show that people have been working just as much for less money under Bush. Let the people see this data during the congressional deliberations, and the rich CEOs of the Chamber of Commerce will see a real firestorm. Mean hours worked spreadsheet and graph.

Thank you, BLS economists, for keeping the data in your computers even though you are forbidden from publishing them, so we can show that people have been working just as much for less money under Bush. Let the people see this data during the congressional deliberations, and the rich CEOs of the Chamber of Commerce will see a real firestorm.

]]> By: jps http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/02/chamber-firestorm/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 jps Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:39:23 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/02/chamber-firestorm/#comment-3060 One of the terrible things about the Bush administration is how they have tried to hide labor statistics. If you want to see real median income growth (not that there has been any since the late 1990s) you have to go to <a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf" rel="nofollow">Figure 1 on p. 5 (PDF p. 13) of this Census report.</a> But if you want to get the median hours worked over the same time period, you can't. The Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped publishing it in 2003. However, you can still call (202) 691-6378 and have the economists email you the data in a spreadsheet. One of the terrible things about the Bush administration is how they have tried to hide labor statistics. If you want to see real median income growth (not that there has been any since the late 1990s) you have to go to Figure 1 on p. 5 (PDF p. 13) of this Census report.

But if you want to get the median hours worked over the same time period, you can’t. The Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped publishing it in 2003. However, you can still call (202) 691-6378 and have the economists email you the data in a spreadsheet.

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