We also incorporated Economy.com's business cost index, which looks at labor, tax, energy and office space costs and its living cost index, which factors in housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures.
The details remain fluid, but we hear they may include a low national jobless rate, job openings as measured by the Labor Department's JOLTS index, and vetting by a new guest-worker commission.
Prices jumped to a higher-than-expected 1.4% in May and core producer prices, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, increased by 0.2%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.
The Labor Department's producer price index saw its biggest jump in 27 years, with prices jumping 1.2 percent in July.
The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis after an unrevised 0.3% gain in October.
The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in January, in line with expectations and the largest increase since July.
Consumer prices fell 1.7% in November, as measured by the U.S. Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, a steeper drop than the 1.3% expected by Wall Street, according to TradeTheNews.com.
And from the government: the Labor Department's Producer Price Index (inflation), the Commerce Department's new housing starts report and the Fed's Beige Book -- its summary of economic conditions region by region.
Today the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.5% in July.
On Wednesday the Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index jumped 0.2%, whereas economists had expected a 0.3% gain.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department said that the consumer price index increased 0.7% in February from the previous month, the largest increase since June 2009.
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The Labor Department also reported the producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, climbed 0.3% in April after dropping 1.2% in March.
Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the Consumer Price Index stood at 2.9% at the end of September, net of the volatile food and energy markets.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will also ask Congress to limit next year's military pay increase to just 1%, even though the Labor Department's expected Employment Cost index for 2014 is higher.
The Fed minutes come on the same day the U.S. Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index fell 1.0% month on month, slightly greater than the 0.8% drop Wall Street had expected.
Separately, the U.S. Labor Department said the October import price index fell 4.7% month over month, a few ticks more than the 4.4% drop expected by Wall Street, for the biggest one-month drop since 1988.
The U.S. Labor Department said Wednesday that its Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in September.
In addition, business executives, labor leaders and other private citizens use the index as a guide in making economic decisions.
Lower unit labor costs are confirmed by the employment cost index.
The Labor Department also reported on the producer price index today.
The Labor Department said that the core producer price index for wholesale prices on goods excluding food and energy rose 0.5% in January, up from a 0.2% increase in December.
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Since 1990, clothing prices in the U.S. have risen just 10% compared with an 82% jump in food prices during the same period, according to Jessica Tenvose, an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the Consumer Price Index.
In notable economic news this week, the Labor Department announced that the seasonally adjusted producer price index dropped by 0.8 percent last month, the second straight decline.
The cot of producing goods fell in December, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday.
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The Producer Price Index fell 0.2% after virtually no change in March, the Labor Department said this morning.
The U.S. producer-price index, meanwhile, fell 0.6% in March from February, the Labor Department reported.
Kauffman bases its entrepreneurial activity index on a monthly population survey jointly sponsored by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The information is gathered from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, C2ER, Tax-Rates.org, and Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
We examined the latest Labor Department unemployment rates for the 50 largest metro areas in the country as well as the monthly Job Search Difficulty Index, published by job search engine Juju.com.
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