Monthly Labor Review, May 2008
Monthly Labor Review, May 2008
English | 114 pages | PDF | 1.26 MB
English | 114 pages | PDF | 1.26 MB
Established in 1915, Monthly Labor Review is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Each month, economists, statisticians, and experts from the Bureau join with private sector professionals and State and local government specialists to provide a wealth of research in a wide variety of fields—the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and many more.
The May Review
Although May is often associated with flowers following April’s showers, it also is the month that brings the annual holiday known as Memorial Day. This day of remembrance for the sacrifices of America’s military began shortly after the Civil War as “Decoration Day,” a day each year during which supporters of the Union side in that conflict decorated the graves of their fallen soldiers with those May flowers. The holiday we now know attained its current identity in the wake of World War I as a reminder of all the fallen from all the wars.