2006 Klein Awards.

The Trustees of the Lawrence R. Klein Award announced the winners of the 2006 awards. The award for best Review article by a BLS author went to the contributors to the special issue on Hurricane Katrina (August 2006). 1-he contributors to this issue include: Brian I. Baker, Edith Baker, Catherine D. Bowman, Bruce Boyd, Sharon E Brown, Patrick Carey, Kristy S. Christiansen, Richard L. Clayton, Richard M. Devens, Molly Garber, Diane E. Herz, Leslie Brown Joyner, Sandra Mason, William Parks II, Edith W. Peters, Anne E. Polivka, Edwin L. Robinson, James R. Spletzer, Keith Tapscott, Allison Tarmann, Richard Tiller, Linda Unger, James White, and Linda Wohlford.

For the best article by an outside author, the trustees selected "Earnings mobility and low-wage workers" (July 2006) by Brett Theodos, a research associate at the Urban Institute, Washington, DC, and Robert Bednarzik, a visiting professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Washington, DC.

The Klein Awards were established by Monthly Labor Review Editor-in-Chief, Lawrence R. Klein, upon his retirement from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1968 to encourage articles that exhibit originality of ideas or method of analysis, adhere to principles of scientific inquiry, and are well written.