MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'bureau of labor'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:45:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4478179&cid=t_248228_175_f&fid=39258&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FInsidePaTraining%2F%7E3%2FBIvQj29jirk%2Fthe-good-news-for-women-about-physician-assistant-careers I’ve been asked a few times by readers about how welcoming the physician assistant profession is to women.  My answer: very. But First, the Good New for Both Genders A quick look at the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition, published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics makes the good news for all of us [...]Visit us at Inside PA Training - Becoming A Physician Assistant (Source: Inside PA Training) Inside PA Training blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4478179 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:11:22 +0100 4478179 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4473111&cid=t_248228_175_f&fid=39258&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FInsidePaTraining%2F%7E3%2FaK4zZwUDy2w%2Fthe-good-news-about-physician-assistant-careers-for-women I’ve been asked a few times by readers about how welcoming the physician assistant profession is to women.  My answer: very.    First, the Good New for Both Genders A quick look at the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition, published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics makes the good news for all of us clear: [...]Visit us at Inside PA Training - Becoming A Physician Assistant (Source: Inside PA Training) Inside PA Training blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4473111 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:11:22 +0100 4473111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382764&cid=t_248228_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhealthcare-homicide-safer-to-work-in-a-prison-than-in-a-hospital%2F2011.01.21 There’s been a lot of stories in the news lately about homicides committed in hospitals. Just out of curiosity, I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website and pulled some data from their Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. It confirmed what I suspected — that homicides of workers in hospitals have increased at twice the rate as correctional facilities, where worker homicides have remained stable. Here’s the graph I was able to make from the BLS data: The red bars (hospital murders) are up to six and seven homicides per year while the blue bars (correctional facility murders) have remained stable at about three per year. This is only for the employees who have been murdered, not all murder victims. When we consider the cost and repercussions of increased ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382764 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:00:00 +0100 4382764 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3662651&cid=t_248228_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPyuPJ5QUa_I%2F By Tad DeHavenPresident Obama is proposing giving the states another $50 billion. However, this would amount to another bailout for state and local government employees and their unions. The president claims that more deficit spending is necessary to sustain the nascent economic recovery. But the only thing the money would sustain is the excessive wages and benefits government employees enjoy at the expense of the private sector. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average state and local government employee receives 45 percent more in total compensation per hour worked than the average private-sector employee. Perhaps we should cut generous government wages and benefits rather than putting the federal government further into debt? Total compensation for state and local worker... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3662651 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:42:42 +0100 3662651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3335288&cid=t_248228_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FeMoZExHNuB4%2F By Alan ReynoldsCongressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) takes the President to task for cooking the books on projected health care costs, most egregiously with the “doc fix” — namely, assuming Medicare slashes physician payments by 21.3% this year and subsequently lets them fall continuously in real terms. What nobody seems to have noticed is that the same phony “doc fix” taints the new “Health Spending Projections Through 2019” from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation, tries to downplay the CMS forecast “that the public sector will start paying more than half of the nation’s health care bill starting in 2012, and that government spending will grow faster than private spending from 2009 to 2019... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3335288 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:59:09 +0100 3335288 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3156441&cid=t_248228_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FSoE8vXOdtPs%2F By Alan ReynoldsNearly every economic commentator from Fox News (on the fair and balanced side) to Paul Krugman (on the unfair and unbalanced side) is eager to tell you that the “real” unemployment rate is not 10% but 17.3%.  The latter figure is the largest of six offered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.   But that does not make it more meaningful. Many people believe (incorrectly) that unemployment is a measure of how many jobs were lost.   But people can also be unemployed because they quit their job, or because they never worked before, or haven’t worked in a long time.  Job losers accounted for 63.7% of the unemployed in December, down from 66.1% in September.  If we counted only those who were unemployed because they lost their jobs, that measure of unemployment wa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3156441 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:27:30 +0100 3156441 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3096840&cid=t_248228_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUwkSDidx3qs%2F By Chris EdwardsA new poll by Rasmussen finds that the general public has an accurate assessment of government worker pay. Compared to the average government worker, most Americans think they work harder, have less job security and make less money. In fact, 59% of Americans say the average government worker earns more annually than the average taxpayer, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 15% don’t believe that to be true, while another 26% are not sure. Among those who have close friends or relatives who work for the government, the belief is even stronger: 61% say the average government worker earns more than the average taxpayer. Feeding that belief is the finding that 51% of all adults think government workers are paid too much. Only 10% say they... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3096840 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:21:52 +0100 3096840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2772560&cid=t_248228_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F07%2Fthe-irony-of-labor-day-in-todays-economy%2F For millions of people getting the day off on Labor Day isn’t a problem. The unemployment numbers are in the double digits in many states, 9.7 at latest count for the United States. Sadly, as pointed out in the New York Times article Out of Work and Too Down to Search On, these statistics don’t capture the people who have given up. In the most direct measure of job market hopelessness, the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] has a narrow definition of a group it classifies as “discouraged workers.” These are people who have looked for work at some point in the past year but have not looked in the last four weeks because they believe that no jobs are available or that they would not qualify, among other reasons. In August, there were roughly 758,000 discouraged workers nationally, compare... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2772560 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:29:44 +0100 2772560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2561202&cid=t_248228_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkAA5Tc-BYjo%2F Those who think that the college-educated, or soon to be so, should have more and more of their education funded by taxpayers – whether those taxpayers themselves attended college or not – are shooting off the fireworks a bit early this year, celebrating increasingly generous federal aid going into effect today. Perhaps the most galling part of all the increasingly free-flowing aid is how much is being targeted at people who work in “public service.” Ignoring for the moment that the people who make our computers, run our grocery stores, play professional baseball, and on and on are all providing the public with things it wants and needs, to make policy on the assumption that people in predominantly government jobs are somehow selflessly sacrificing for the common good is to blata... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2561202 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:10:50 +0100 2561202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2515196&cid=t_248228_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F25%2Fyou-wear-the-suit-8-tips-on-trading-places-with-your-spouse%2F I’ve noticed many more men at pick-up from school and camp, soccer practice and birthday parties. The women? They’ve gone back to work because there are more jobs available in their fields. In a recent BusinessWeek.com article, Peter Coy writes: They eat from the same dishes and sleep in the same beds, but they seem to be operating in two different economies. From last November through this April, American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs, according to the household survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, American men lost nearly 700,000 jobs. You might even say American men are in recession, and American women are not. What’s going on? Simply put, men have the misfortune of being concentrated in the two sectors that are doing the worst... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2515196 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:00:11 +0100 2515196