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Reports on the performance of the U.S. labor market in July 2004.

The article reports on lower growth in the number of people working which will mean slower growth in economic output in the U.S. Topics discussed include the effect of the baby boom generation hitting retirement age, many younger workers moving to urban centers on the coasts and proportion of U.S. counties that experienced a decline in the number of residents ages 25 to 54 between 2007 and 2017.

The article discusses the New York City Police Department's efforts to address the shortage of detectives in the Bronx, New York City precinct. An overview the New York City chief of detectives Robert K. Boyce's perspective on the role that increasing detectives in Bronx will have on detective caseloads is provided.

This article discusses the financial stability of the American automobile industry. In February 2007, DaimlerChrysler announced that it was considering all options for its struggling Chrysler Group. DaimlerBenz of Germany acquired Chrysler in 1996. Chrysler said it would eliminate 13,000 jobs, almost 16 percent of its work force, in the U.S. and Canada, and shut all or part of 4 plants by 2009. The company has hired JPMorgan as a strategic advisor.

The article discusses the difficulty U.S. cities are experiencing with recruiting and retaining city managers, with 6400+ positions open. With the baby boomers reaching retirement age, there will be government talent shortages to come. The City/County Management Association calls the unfilled executive and managerial jobs a crisis, and City of Palo Alto, California city manager Frank Benest finds it a "demographic tsunami."

Reports that a growing number of U.S. companies are hunting for older workers because they have lower turnover rates and, in many cases, better work performance. Efforts by Home Depot, Borders and Wal-Mart to recruit older workers; Observation that the percentage of older Americans in the work force has risen; How recruitment efforts are reaching a willing audience, as more older people seek work because they need extra money and health benefits; Comments of older workers; Observation that in industries with labor shortages, like nursing, older workers already have an edge.

Microsoft is opening a research lab in New York City, and the back story is a further sign of the brisk market for computing brains these days. Last month, Yahoo announced it was shedding 2,000 employees, about 14 percent of its work force, with cuts across the board, including its research staff. The new Microsoft lab, announced Wednesday night, is essentially a transplanted team from Yahoo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Workers are dropping out of the labor force in droves, and they are mostly women. In fact, many are young women. But they are not dropping out forever; instead, these young women seem to be postponing their working lives to get more education. There are now -- for the first time in three decades -- more young women in school than in the work force. ''I was working part-time at Starbucks for a year and a half,'' said Laura Baker, 24, who started a master's program in strategic communications this fall at the University of Denver. ''I wasn't willing to just stay there. I had to do something.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City presented the kind of election-year budget on Friday that every politician dreads. Facing a bottom line that keeps shrinking, he asked for new taxes, more cuts in services and few new projects. He salted his nearly $60 billion budget proposal with references to the lesser of unpleasant choices and how ''everybody sacrifices a little.'' His only encouraging news was a promise to maintain core services and thus, somehow, ''keep New York New York.'' One of the mayor's toughest hurdles will be convincing state legislators to agree to the proposals that require their consent. The mayor and the City Council on their own can trim the budget and the work force. Mr. Bloomberg wants to lay off 3,700 employees and seeks $324 million in new cuts from library services, traffic enforcement, child care, parks and other municipal services. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that many aging American workers who had planned to retire are discovering that they do not have the financial resources to support themselves in retirement. How, since the mid-1990s, older people have become the fastest-growing portion of the work force; Views of Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, and other economists; Potential changes in the federal program that supports elderly Americans; Labor market conditions; Factors keeping people in the work force later, including Social Security; The most vulnerable workers; Implications of the dismantling of traditional defined-benefit pensions and the collapse of company-paid health insurance for retirees.

Looks into the employment sector in the U.S. Number of jobs created by the government; Issue on the slow growth on wages and salaries of employees; Necessity of new tax-sheltered savings accounts.

Focuses on American citizens working in Iraq. Reasons for signing up for jobs in Iraq; Observation that few could have imagined how dangerous their jobs would become; How civilian workers, many Halliburton employees, have become targets of kidnappings and murder; Missing U.S. workers, including former dairy farmer Thomas Hamill, a Halliburton truck driver; Reactions of Americans to the increasing chaos; How the costs of doing business in Iraq are climbing; Protective measures and defensive maneuvers that many workers in Iraq are adopting; Examples of people who are seeking employment in Iraq.

Comments on the investments of businesses on machines rather than on workers. Increase of the cost of capital equipments since 1995; Delivery of all the technology and machine ordered by American businesses; Importance of human workers to operate industrial equipments.

Reports that more executives are saying they are finally ready to start hiring new workers; Results of a survey which says more than half the executives see a staff increase over the next 6 months while 22 percent of those polled said they would be reducing their staff; Results of a separate survey of midlevel managers which suggests that employment has grown slowly in recent weeks. Positive economic reports which lifted the dollar's value against the euro; Labor market figures which are expected to be better than last month; Growth forecasts for the rest of the year.

Focuses on the impact of economic recovery on workers. Increase in profits; Decline on employment; Deterioration of labor's bargaining power.

Discusses the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California's so-called retiree casual program, under which retired workers join a pool of employees who are hired back from time to time. Increase in U.S. labor force participation among workers aged 55 to 64; How Aerospace's program works; Reasons why retirees return to work there; Views of workers and experts; How many workers view their early retirement years. INSET: Companies Pool Retired Talent.

Focuses on a Continental Airlines-sponsored job fair in Newark, New Jersey for airline employees who were laid off. Transferrable skills of airline employees, such as customer service; Industries which have a demand for manpower, including health care, financial services and waste management; Desire of many ex-employees to return to the airline industry.

Reports on a shortage of engineers, geologists and oil-rig workers in the petroleum industry, as of July, 2001. Efforts of companies, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Global Marine Inc., to recruit employees; Estimation of the percentage of workers who could be lost to retirement in the next seven years; Impact of the United States economy on the oil industry.

Focuses on the concerns of employees in the United States as they attempt to keep up with technological change. Abundance of available jobs; Workers who quit their jobs to search for something better, only to find that other employment opportunities were not worth the switch; Fears of being laid off despite the abundance of jobs; Uneasiness caused by corporate mergers and efforts to increase productivity; Emergence of a generation gap among employees.

Focuses on the need to employ workers over 55 to alleviate labor shortage in the United States in the 21st century. How the strong economy influences the early retirement of baby boomers; Details on the efforts of McDonald's Corp. to recruit more older workers; What companies must do to retain older workers.

Focuses on an Arcnet policy that provides employees with BMW automobiles in an effort to retain employees in the competitive United States technical job market. Details and costs of Arcnet's program; Other small companies that have provided BMWs; Other common and less costly incentives; Reaction of Arcnet employees.

Reports on the December 15, 1999 announcement by Exxon Mobil Corp. that it would cut 13% of its work force in an effort to increase its cost savings by 2002. How the 1998 merger of Exxon and Mobil created the loss of jobs; Plans by the company to increase production.

Reports on the labor shortage in Vail, Colorado in 1998. Cause of the shortage; Housing prices in Vail; Opposition to a plan known as Common Ground to build living units to rent or sell to local workers.

Reports on the plans of Philip Morris Companies to reduce several jobs at its United States tobacco unit on February 25, 1998. Percentage of the reduction; Method of reduction to be utilized by Philip Morris; Value of pretax charges to be made by Philip Morris; Location of the plants where the workforce will be reduced.

Reports on the employment and public transportation situation in Detroit, Michigan, and relates the problems that Detroit resident Dorthy L. Johnson and others encountered when commuting to work. Details on Johnson's daily routine; Comments from Bruce Katz, director of the Center of Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution; Why college graduate Alice A. Newell resigned from her job with a retired executive of Ford Motor Company; Transportation problems in the Detroit.