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Name: Bryan L. Boulier on Mar 5, 2010State: VirginiaAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: William G. Barron Jr. on Mar 5, 2010State: MarylandAffiliation: Private CitizenComments: The BLS, along with other major organizations in the Department of Labor, employs many dedicated civil servants who work very hard in their jobs and make every effort to protect and serve the public, especially individual citizens who need assistance. These Department of Labor efforts have been, and continue to be, severely underfunded . In the current economic environment, the long term underfunding of Labor Department programs that address the needs of workers should be a priority for any administration that cares about working people and their welfare. Providing individuals with basic information and assistance in understanding, maintaining and better securing their economic welfare, and protecting fundamental rights under public law for such basic rights as equal employment opportunity, fair wages, pension and benefit security including health care protection are far more important priorities than funding cost overruns and ineptitude in programs outside of the Department of Labor. Even in the relatively small federal statistical budget, there are programs and activities in agencies outside of the DOL and BLS that are gross examples of waste and mismanagement, and many others that are activities or functions performed poorly or of far lower priority than the DOL and BLS work described above. One quick look at Inspector General and GAO reports, and Congressional hearing transcripts reveals that this waste is hardly a secret. Viewed against the facts, the OMB comment in the Washington Post about priorities for BLS and DOL programs is not just misleading, it is also an insult, not just to the hard working civil servants at the Department of Labor and BLS, but, more importantly, to the hard working citizens and taxpayers that the DOL is trying to serve.Flag
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Name: Markley Roberts on Mar 6, 2010State: MarylandAffiliation: LaborComments: My duties during my 33 years at the AFL-CIO included serving for many years as chair of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor Research Advisory Council and also as chair of the BLS Council's Committee on Productivity and Foreign Labor Statistics (now renamed “international labor comparisons”). International labor statistics have always been of key interest to labor unions on at least two counts ... one as a matter of social welfare comparison and even more important as a basis for comparison of international wage levels and international labor cost comparisons. These comparisons are important in general and particularly important to unions affected by trade, exports and imports. Therefore I am particularly concerned by learning that the Obama Administration's proposed 2011 Labor Dept budget has zeroed-out $2 million for the Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of International Labor Comparisons. This will be a serious injury to the unions that use these labor statistics. This BLS office has already taken budget cuts in recent years but it is extraordinarily shortsighted -- even crazy and nonsensical. I know that the ILO, International Labor Organization, occasionally but not regularly publishes some international labor statistics ... but what the ILO does is based very largely on techniques, data, and leadership provided by the BLS international labor comparisons office.Flag
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Name: Linda Oppenheim on Mar 6, 2010State: New JerseyAffiliation: AcademiaComments: Economic development requires reliable data. This program is crucial for efforts to America's economic progress.Flag
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Name: Alvin Goldman on Mar 6, 2010State: KentuckyAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Tito Boeri on Mar 6, 2010State: MarylandAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Timothy Smeeding on Mar 7, 2010State: WisconsinAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Gary Martin on Mar 7, 2010State: VirginiaAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Lori Kletzer on Mar 7, 2010State: CaliforniaAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Caren Bakkum on Mar 7, 2010State: North CarolinaAffiliation: Private CitizenComments: This agency provides valuable information, essential to the well being of our national and international intelligence.Flag
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Name: Robert Lawrence on Mar 8, 2010State: MassachusettsAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Susan Vroman on Mar 9, 2010State: District of ColumbiaAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Jim Albrecht on Mar 9, 2010State: District of ColumbiaAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Jessica Boccardo on Mar 9, 2010State: New YorkAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Judy Ancel on Mar 9, 2010State: MissouriAffiliation: AcademiaComments: Such a cut will undermine my teaching and research. Is this just another way of making the U.S. less competitive by ignoring what goes on elsewhere?Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 9, 2010State: MissouriAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Abigail Carlton on Mar 9, 2010State: New YorkAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Frederic S. Lee on Mar 9, 2010State: MissouriAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Peter Nadash on Mar 9, 2010State: MarylandAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 9, 2010State: VirginiaAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Eric Downey on Mar 9, 2010State: AlaskaAffiliation: BusinessComments: Sound comparative data is the foundation for improving America's global competitiveness. This data will create family wage jobs in the U.S.Flag
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Name: Hunter N. Moorman on Mar 9, 2010State: VirginiaAffiliation: GovernmentComments: The elimination of the BLS International Labor Comparisons Program will deprive policymakers and academicians of a proven, valuable tool that produces large benefits at a small cost. This program promises to provide useful outcomes for years to come, but once eliminated, essential data and expertise will have been lost and it will not be possible to recoup or renew them. In light of the increasingly globalized context of the US economy and the growing importance of many developing countries and emerging super-economies, elimination of this program would be a particularly unfortunate and short-sighted action. Thank you.Flag
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Name: David Kuehn on Mar 10, 2010State: GeorgiaAffiliation: LaborComments:Flag
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Name: David Anderson on Mar 10, 2010State: ColoradoAffiliation: BusinessComments: BLS data on international labor is an essential tool.Flag
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Name: GERALD CALL on Mar 10, 2010State: IllinoisAffiliation: BusinessComments:Flag
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Name: Josh Bivens on Mar 10, 2010State: District of ColumbiaAffiliation: InstituteComments:Flag
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Name: June Zaccone on Mar 10, 2010State: New YorkAffiliation: AcademiaComments: A small saving for government spending at enormous cost to researchers.Flag
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Name: Marvin Lee on Mar 10, 2010State: CaliforniaAffiliation: AcademiaComments: Preserve a valuable access to economic and social comparisons.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 10, 2010State: VirginiaAffiliation: AcademiaComments: It does help academic research. And it is very important to know what is happening in Asian countries in such an globalization times.Flag
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Name: Rosalind Boyd on Mar 10, 2010State: New YorkAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Gerald Leslie on Mar 10, 2010State: TexasAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: William D. Dean on Mar 10, 2010State: ColoradoAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Christopher Niedt on Mar 11, 2010State: New YorkAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: David Schlein on Mar 11, 2010State: District of ColumbiaAffiliation: LaborComments:Flag
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Name: Stephen E. Baldwin on Mar 11, 2010State: MarylandAffiliation: BusinessComments:Flag
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Name: John J Price on Mar 11, 2010State: OhioAffiliation: LaborComments: These reports are priceless not only to keep track of and show how productive the American workers is compared to other countries but even domestically. Employers who do not collectively bargain a labor agreement in good faith with their employees should be exposed when and where they take advantage of these workers. For Employers who do honest business and want to treat their employees with dignity and respect have the opportunity throught these reports to see what the rate of pay and benefits are in the Industry.Flag
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Name: Patrick J. Devitt on Mar 11, 2010State: WisconsinAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Mary Dean on Mar 11, 2010State: IllinoisAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Michael Havlovic on Mar 11, 2010State: South DakotaAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Holly Sklar on Mar 11, 2010State: MassachusettsAffiliation: InstituteComments:Flag
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Name: John Lazar on Mar 12, 2010State: PennsylvaniaAffiliation: LaborComments:Flag
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Name: Abigail Clark on Mar 12, 2010State: MichiganAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Dr. Bernard E .Anderson on Mar 12, 2010State: PennsylvaniaAffiliation: AcademiaComments: Eliminating the international labor comparisons data is a false and short-sighted way to trim the BLS budget. As a participant in OECD, the U.S. has an obligation to maintain data sources that promote Western nation economic policy collaboration.Flag
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Name: Carol Woehrer on Mar 12, 2010State: MinnesotaAffiliation: Private CitizenComments: Comparison of U.S. wages and productivity to those abroad is essential for understanding our economy and planning for the success of U.S. workers.Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Capelle on Mar 12, 2010State: New YorkAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: J. Moy on Mar 12, 2010State: MarylandAffiliation: Private CitizenComments:Flag
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Name: Daniel Sidorick on Mar 12, 2010State: New JerseyAffiliation: AcademiaComments:Flag
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Name: Art Montminy on Mar 12, 2010State: MassachusettsAffiliation: LaborComments:Flag
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Name: Amy Bromsen on Mar 12, 2010State: MichiganAffiliation: AcademiaComments: I am in the PhD program at Wayne State. I have used the statistics compiled by the International Labor Comparisons Program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics extensively in my work. In addition, their work is critical for my dissertaiton.Flag
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Name: James Condran on Mar 12, 2010State: PennsylvaniaAffiliation: LaborComments:Flag