BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

Bills and resolutions

Colleges and universities: provide students with information from the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics Program and Occupational Outlook Handbook (see H.R. 2584), H4174 [28JN]

Davis-Bacon Act: require determination of the prevailing wage utilized (see H.R. 448), H315 [1FE]

Economy: prevent use of chained consumer price index (CPI) to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security or veteran benefits or to increase low- and middle-class tax burden (see S. Con. Res. 15), S2961 [24AP]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security (see H.R. 1585), H2066 [16AP] (see H.R. 2154), H2953 [23MY]

Unemployment: include discouraged and marginally attached workers in official measure of national unemployment (see H.R. 484), H342 [4FE]

Remarks in House

Government: impact of shutdown on release of jobs report, H6496 [11OC]

Remarks in Senate

Economy: prevent use of chained consumer price index (CPI) to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security or veteran benefits or to increase low- and middle-class tax burden (S. Con. Res. 15), S2967–S2970 [24AP]

Senior citizens: establish a consumer price index for elderly consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security, S2955 [24AP]

Statements

No Empirical Basis for Reducing the Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment: several economists and social insurance experts, S2969 [24AP]

Texts of

S. Con. Res. 15, prevent use of chained consumer price index (CPI) to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security or veteran benefits or to increase low- and middle-class tax burden, S2967 [24AP]