Bryan Arnold is an economist with the division of current employment statistics at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov), where he is responsible for reviewing and producing monthly employment figures for states and areas in the southeastern United States. Previously he worked in the branch of mass layoffs statistics with the same agency. He graduated from Missouri State University in 2005 with a degree in economics and political science and is currently working on a graduate degree in applied economics at Johns Hopkins University.