In September, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, Oklahoma City's unemployment was just 5.9%.

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And according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labour Statistics, time has changed little.

ECONOMIST: Blacks are faring much worse than whites in this recession

According to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, 28, 000 jobs have been lost since May 2000.

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First, the Bureau of Labour Statistics changed its surveying techniques in 1994 to make a better job of measuring marginal workers.

ECONOMIST: No part-time job explosion

The Bureau of Labour Statistics also revised the figure for August from a loss of 4, 000 jobs to a gain of 89, 000.

ECONOMIST: Business this week

The demand for computer-support specialists and software engineers, to take two examples, is expected by the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) to double between 2000 and 2010.

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All that remains is the assumption that, between now and 1999, the Bureau of Labour Statistics (which calculates the index) will make a minor fiddle to reduce it by 0.15%.

ECONOMIST: Agreeing to be nice does not solve America��s problems

Evidence from the American Bureau of Labour Statistics support the conservative argument that they have used their power to extract a wage premium: public-sector workers earn, on average, a third more than their private-sector counterparts.

ECONOMIST: Public-sector workers