The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) celebrates its 125th anniversary in 2009. In 1884, Congress voted to establish a Bureau of Labor, and on June 27 of that year President Chester A. Arthur signed the bill into law. A few years later the name of the organization was changed to Bureau of Labor Statistics. Eventually BLS became part of the Department of Labor when the Department was established in 1913. Your invited to learn more about the BLS Bureau’s 125th anniversary by visiting Spotlight on Statistics (www.bls.gov/spotlight) which commemorates this event through a visual essay of some of their longest-running and newest data series. FYI, the BLS is a valuable resource for those interested in statistics about employment, labor, consumer price index and other socio-economic variables. See http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2009/125_anniversary/
