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    Name: Robert Bednarzik on Feb 15, 2010
    State: Maryland
    Affiliation:
    Comments: Keeping this very valuable and unique data shop alive for just $2-million annually is a no brainer
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    Name: Daniel J.B. Mitchell on Feb 17, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Paul F. Clark on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Pennsylvania
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: As a teacher and researcher who focues on international employment relations, labor, and human resources, I urge you to continue collecting this data. Globalization now touches every aspect of our field and this data is more relevant now than ever.
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    Name: Goetz Wolff on Feb 17, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: The BLS International Labor Comparisons Program is not only relevant to academic researchers. It provides a guide and measurement to take into account US competitiveness and thus aids business as well. The savings of $2 million is trivial in light of the expenditures for corporate bailouts, for example. Please keep me informed of the plans.
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    Name: MORRIS KLEINER on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Minnesota
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Sue Murrmann on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Virginia
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Michael Reich on Feb 17, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Prof Clair Brown on Feb 17, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Kent F. Murrmann, Ph.D. on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Virginia
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: Please do not cancel the intenational labor data services.
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    Name: Diane F. Frey on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Vermont
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: It is amazing to me it is a Democratic administration, not a Republican, one that is pursuing the termination of such an important program. This data is important to research, writing and policy. I hope it will be preserved.
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    Name: Gary Chaison on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Massachusetts
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: Please continued this valuable program. It costs relatively little to compile the data, and once discontinued it will cost a huge amount to restart and even then the gaps in the series may never be filled in.
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    Name: Richard McIntyre on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Rhode Island
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: I use this data in my research and teaching of future human resources and labor relations professionals.
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    Name: Janice R Bellace on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Pennsylvania
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: It is incredible that in an era of globalization and at a time when the United States is becoming less competitive in both manufacturing and many service industries, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics would discontinue the International Labor Comparisons Program. The international data compiled by the BLS is absolutely vital for any serious analysis of U.S. competitiveness compared to that of the other leading economies. This service must be retained.
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    Name: Chris Tilly on Feb 17, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: This is an essential data source for understanding the US labor market in a global economy. Eliminating it will mean flying blind through stormy weather.
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    Name: Joh on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Ohio
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: This is the most important data set for comparative labor costs that we have and is especially important is assessing labor costs in manufacturing.
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    Name: David Howell on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Francoise Carre on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Massachusetts
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: I have used the output of this unit (labor force, wages, and productivity data in particular) in research projects and comparative policy analysis since the late 1970s. The impact of this small program on cross national research projects and business relevant research is very great.
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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Catherine C Ruetschlin on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: John Winkel on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: David Stubbs on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: oh, now really!!
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    Name: Mishan Hing on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Michail Nikiforos on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Michael H. Belzer, Ph.D. on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Michigan
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: Just as it makes no sense to drive down the road with your windshield painted black, it makes no sense to eliminate the information on which the public bases policy analysis. As with other data sets already destroyed by the previous administration, the elimination of this small series would continue to wreak irreparable harm on policy analysis
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    Name: Edwin Dean on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Virginia
    Affiliation: Business
    Comments: To save $2 million a year, it seems, the Administration is prepared to seriously hobble the efforts of business leaders, union officials, government analysts and scholars who use these data to analyze the international markets for goods and services and to help meet the challenges our country faces in competing successfully in these markets. To save--yes--$2 million. How amazingly short-sighted.
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    Name: Anwar Shaikh on Feb 17, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: I have used the ILR series extensively. It is a wonderful resource for international researchers. I strongly urge that its funding be maintained at necessary levels.
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    Name: Bryce Geyer on Feb 17, 2010
    State: Virginia
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Leonhard Plank on Feb 17, 2010
    State: District of Columbia
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: John Sarich on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Government
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    Name: David Gruber on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: This is irresponsible. In the midst of globalization, we must understand what is going on in other world markets, particularly labor markets that have an increasing impact on our own.
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    Name: Florian Sniekers on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Amr Ragab on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Ascension Mejorado on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Private Citizen
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    Name: Joann Vanek on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Private Citizen
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    Name: Mathew on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Santiago Grullon on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Business
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    Name: Lisa Selca on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Mona Ali on Feb 18, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Ellen Dannin on Feb 18, 2010
    State: Pennsylvania
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Lloyd Ulman on Feb 18, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: David Lamoureux on Feb 19, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Stuart Basefsky on Feb 19, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Media
    Comments: The ILC program at BLS is a vital part of global awareness for Human Resource practitioners in Multinational Corporations and for a wide range of researchers, worker associations, and public policy analysts. There is no good alternative available particularly from a U.S. perspective.
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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 20, 2010
    State: Virginia
    Affiliation: Government
    Comments: The program of international labor comparisons provides important and easily accesible data to measure U.S. competitiveness and labor markets. Please continue to fund this valuable program.
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    Name: Robert Flanagan on Feb 21, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg on Feb 22, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: As a professor of social policy and author/editor of three cross-national books plus numerous articles and confenerence presentations that depend heavily on comparative labor market statistics, I would regret deeply the loss of this very vital service. I recall particularly Constance Sorrentio's work in harmonizing these data and would otherwise have been less confident, indeed handicapped, in comparing the eight or nine countries in my various studies.
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    Name: Helen Lachs Ginsburg on Feb 23, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments: I have been a user of BLS comparative labor market and economic studies and data data for more than three decades. Much of my research has been comparing US and Swedish labor market. Without the excellent, pathbreaking BLS studies and monthly data, my work would be virtually impossible. The high quality of BLS data and their careful analysis is widely known and recognized worldwide. Wherever I have been, foreign researchers have always looked to BLS as a model for their own programs. This world-wide recognition is confirmed by the International Labor Organization's choice about a decade ago of Constance Sorrentino of the BLS to head their advisory study on new workdwide comparative labor market indicators.. Sorriintino, who head the international labor comoparisons program at BLS has been a pathbreaker and has assembled a commited group of economists who are tops in the field as far as knowledge in this area. At a time when the US economy is increasingly part of a global economy cutting out a $2 million diollar program which increases our knowledge is nothng less than absurd. It is a vote for ignorance over knowledge. I sincerely hope that the Adminstration will reverse its decision and vote for knowledge over ignorance.
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    Name: Ronald G Ehrenberg on Feb 23, 2010
    State: New York
    Affiliation: Academia
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    Name: Phyllis Otto on Feb 23, 2010
    State: New Hampshire
    Affiliation: Private Citizen
    Comments: Wwithout this program, we won't have the information we need on how the U.S. economy is performing in comparison with other major economies. The other statistics I've seen are often presented "as is", without considering the major differences the exist between countries in how terms are defined and how datat is collected.
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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 25, 2010
    State: California
    Affiliation: Academia
    Comments:
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