Saint Louis Job News & Opportunities St. Louis Front Page is a weekly news publication, with daily updates, spotlighting attractions, events, business and hospitality in St. Louis, Missouri and Southwest Illinois. St. Louis News Community Info St. Louis Job News St. Louis CitySide Business News St. Charles News Southwest, IL News Fairview Heights,IL Art Gallery News Hotel News Restaurant News Style St. Louis Not Just For Kids   Downtown Map America's Center Busch Stadium Gateway Arch Scottrade Center Laclede's Landing Old Courthouse Union Station Washington Avenue   Metropolitan Map Casinos Clayton, MO Grand Center Grant's Farm Forest Park Kimmswick, MO MO Botanical Garden Soulard St. Charles, MO West Port Plaza Transportation Lambert Airport How To Reach Us: St. Louis Front Page P.O. Box 1354 St. Louis, MO 63188 Voice: 314-771-0200 Fax: 314-771-0300 To submit news, contact: editor@slfp.com To advertise, contact: advertising@slfp.com Census Bureau Provides Free Online Tools to Help Jobseekers ST. LOUIS, MO, (SLFP.com), April 15, 2007 - The U.S. Census Bureau has several free online tools to help jobseekers, employers and economic planners get a handle on the local job market. The program - called Local Employment Dynamics (LED) - is a partnership between state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau. It fills critical data gaps in workforce statistics at the state, county, metro and workforce investment area levels. The LED tools can help decision-makers understand current workforce conditions and plan economic development. These tools help employers find potential workers and show jobseekers where to locate up-and-coming industries. The program featured data from five states when it launched in 1999, and had expanded to 44 states by early 2007. "You see where workers live, where they work and how they commute," said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. "You can use these tools to spot, for example, where to relocate an office or see where you need more public transportation. The possibilities and uses are endless." Users give the LED tools high marks. "The power of the mapping capability just knocks your socks off," said Ray Uhalde of the National Center on Education and the Economy. Philip Rones, acting commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, describes the LED tools as "the Holy Grail of labor force data." The three LED online tools are: QWI (Quarterly Workforce Indicators) Online, Industry Focus and On the Map. QWI Online contains eight economic indicators: total employment, net job flow, job creation, number of new hires, separations, turnover and average monthly earnings for all workers and new hires. Each indicator is a measure of a local economy that combines wage information with demographic data, such as age and sex. Together, they provide a complete picture of an area's workforce, and changes can be tracked over time. Industry Focus allows users to identify the leading industries for an area, focus on a particular industry to see how it ranks among top industries, and view graphs and charts of worker characteristics within industries. Users can analyze industries by state, county, workforce investment or metro area based on eight workforce indicators. On the Map is a Web-based mapping tool showing where people live in relation to where they work with reports on age, earnings, industry distribution and local workforce indicators. The Local Employment Dynamics data tools can be found at lehd.dsd.census.gov/led/index.html. For more information about the program, contact Dorothy Paugh at 301-763-2058. Archived: More Workers Express Concern about Economy Majority of Adults are Involved in Relationships with Income Disparities Employment Outlook Survey Finds Hint of Restraint in U.S. Hiring Plans People of Similar Income and Education Gravitate Toward Same Neighborhoods People of Similar Income and Education Gravitate Toward Same Neighborhoods Can Workers Recover From Unexpected Layoffs? Chronic Pain Up Almost 40 Percent Among U.S. Workers in Past Decade Package Yourself to Get Your Dream Job Most Women Aren't 'Opting Out' of the Work Force Comprehensive Personality Testing May Help Land the Right Job in a Hot Job Market One-in-Five Workers to Change Jobs in the New Year    The Saint Louis Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Saint Louis area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 1996 - 2008 Moore Design Group .