Bob Uhlenkott is the chief research officer for the Idaho Department of Labor and has been with the department since 2000. He manages the department’s Research and Analysis Unit, which is responsible for several federal and state research and survey programs. Prior to his employment with the Idaho Department of Labor, he was director of the Idaho Statistical Analysis Center at the Idaho State Police and he also worked in the Program Formulation Division of the U.S. Department of Energy where he studied leverage points of wealth creation in the U.S. economy.