by Michael Pakko | Jun 23, 2017
Arkansas is a relatively low income state, but it is also a state with a very low cost of living. A dollar of income supports more real spending in Arkansas than it would in other, more expensive parts of the country. New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis...
by Michael Pakko | Jul 8, 2016
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released new figures on real personal income for states and metropolitan areas yesterday. The data contain a wealth of information on incomes, prices and standards-of-living. They are based on a relatively new dataset calculating...
by Michael Pakko | Mar 25, 2015
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its report on State Personal Income for the fourth quarter of 2014 and for calendar-year 2014. The headline statistic was an national average growth rate of 3.9% from 2013 to 2014. In Arkansas, the annual growth...
