The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "labor bureau" ...
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Dissecting the recession for local impact
Mellnik details the information you can mine to determine how the recession in impacting your local economy.
Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics (LAUS); Current Employer Statistics (CES); Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW); MLS; Office of Federal Housing Enterpirse Oversight (OFHEO); Economy.com; FHA
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Job Safety: Getting and Making Sense of the Data
The author lists and describes sources for workplace safety information, such as OSHA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also offers tips for working with these information sources.
Tags: OSHA; worker safety; job safety; federal government
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Tracking local employment and pay trends
Knox discusses how to use the quarterly census of employment and wages to track local employment trends. Beyond that, he also offers tips about how to do a more in-depth investigation by finding out which types of businesses and industries are hiring and firing. Finally, Knox discusses sources to find the data for this sort of investigation.
Tags: jobs; employment; unemployment; data analysis; census; NAICS; labor bureau
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Dissecting Profits and Non-Profits
This tipsheet is composed of a concise list of resources for investigating publicly- traded companies, as well as non-profits. Some of the resources include the Security and Exchange Commission, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Guidestar.
Tags: business; SEC; Better Business Bureau
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Reporting/Writing about workplace deaths
Pritchard explains where to get information about death in the workplace, how to deal with that information and how to talk to certain people with information.
Tags: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries; Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Using BLS' Covered Employment and Wages Program to Describe a Community's Economic Health
Richard M. Stein of KLIOS Inc. explains how to use the Bureau of Labor Statistics' covered employment and wages program data to assess your community's economic health.
Tags: bureau of labor statistics; employment and wages program; economy; money; data
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Maureen Greene offers tips for using local data to assess the economic health of a community. He points out where the government's data is incomplete as well as some under utilized -- but interesting -- datasets. The handout includes detailed information on the Bureau's major programs, which is also available on the agency's webiste.
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Covering Workplace Safety
Lists some important data sources for reporting on workplace safety
Tags: U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration; safety; work; labor; laws; Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Covering Workplace Safety
Provides a listing of websites beneficial to finding inspection/enforcement actions, records of injuries/fatalities, annual studies and government research.
Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration; safety; injuries; fatalities; labor laws