Arkansas Personal Income – 2022:Q2

Last week’s release of new GDP data coincided with a new report on state-level personal income. The Bureau of Economic Analysis indicated that the two reports would be released simultaneously from now on.  There is some logic in that plan: GDP and personal...

Arkansas Personal Income – 2021:Q3

The latest report on state-level personal income, released yesterday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, shows that personal incomes in Arkansas increased at a 2.9% annual rate in the third quarter, following a revised second quarter decline of 26.9%.  [The second...

Arkansas Personal Income – 2021:Q2

New data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that Arkansas Personal Income declined by 8.5% in the second quarter (an annualized rate of -29.8%). Nationwide, the second-quarter decrease in income was 6.0% (-21.8% annual rate). Income declines in the...

Arkansas Personal Income – 2020:Q3

New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis released today shows that Arkansas personal income declined by 5.5% in the third quarter — corresponding to a -20.3% annual rate.  Nationwide, personal income was down 2.6% (a 10.0% annual rate).  The BEA reported that...

Arkansas Personal Income – 2020:Q2

Today’s report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that total personal income increased by 7.0% in Arkansas in the second quarter of 2020 – an annualized growth rate of 31.3%. Arkansas’ growth rate was slightly slower than the 34.2% pace...

Arkansas Personal Income – 2020:Q1

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the state-level personal income report for the first quarter of 2020 this morning.  The BEA noted that this was the first-quarter to be “impacted by the response to the spread of COVID-19, as governments issued...
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