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1. Bureau of National Affairs
BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference
Daily Labor Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, September 29, 1992: Pg. A-13
Cohort(s): NLS General
Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys

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As House and Senate conferees prepare to meet Sept. 30 on the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, officials at the DOL's Bureau of Labor Statistics are considering cuts to economic data programs that would be necessary if the agency's final budget comes in under the Bush administration's request. BLS officials contend that their choices are few if they have to cut spending on data series, largely because most of their programs are part of the core of statistics used by policy-makers and private forecasters as they try to get an accurate reading of what has been a hard-to-predict economy. Also, other BLS data programs are mandated by law, such as salary surveys required by the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990. Among the cuts that BLS officials are considering given the possibility of cuts in the final budget bill are: -- Various parts of the Boskin initiative, particularly those designed to improve employment and price programs. -- The national longitudinal survey, a $7 million a year program that yields data used by many private economists to look at labor market changes of demographic groups over time. Last summer, when this program was included in its list of possible cuts, the bureau received letters protesting such a plan from about 40 private economists, mainly from the academic community. -- The federal locality pay program, which just began in fiscal 1992, would be slightly reduced, but only in such a way that BLS could meet its deadline for delivering data to the Office of Personnel Management. Data will be used to help make federal pay more in line with those in comparable jobs in the private sector.
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Bureau of National Affairs. "BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference." Daily Labor Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, September 29, 1992: Pg. A-13.
2. Bureau of National Affairs
Most Eligible Workers Do Not File for Unemployment, GAO Report Finds
BNA Daily Labor Report, March 16, 2006
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
Keyword(s): Unemployment; Unemployment Compensation

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Summary of a GAO report that uses NLSY79 data to discuss factors related to an individual's decision to file for unemployment.
Bibliography Citation
Bureau of National Affairs. "Most Eligible Workers Do Not File for Unemployment, GAO Report Finds." BNA Daily Labor Report, March 16, 2006.