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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release September 12, 1997

              PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM AS 
              COMMISSIONER OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
                        AT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

President Clinton today announced his intent to nominate Katharine G. Abraham to serve a second term as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor.

Ms. Abraham, of Iowa, has served since 1993 as the Commissioner of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor, where she oversees the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Concurrently, Ms. Abraham is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland. In addition, she has served as a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Ms. Abraham received a B.S. from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the Federal agency responsible for gathering data relating to the broad field of labor economics. Information regarding the labor force, wage levels, prices, and productivity is collected, processed, analyzed, and then released to the public by the Bureau, which strives to keep its data accurate, timely, and relevant.

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