2005–07 Worker Displacement — 2008-08-20

From January 2005 through December 2007, 3.6 million workers were dis- placed from jobs they had held for at least 3 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The number of displaced workers was about the same as the level (3.8 million) recorded in the previous survey that covered the period from January 2003 to December 2005. (The Worker Displacement 2003-2005 news release is available online at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/disp_08172006.pdf.) Since 1984, the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Depart- ment of Labor has sponsored surveys that collect information on workers who were displaced from their jobs. These surveys have been conducted biennially as supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly survey of households that is the primary source of information on the nation's labor force.