BEA News: Local Area Personal Income, 2009-2011

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The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:

Personal income rose in 2011 in all of the nation’s 366 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for the first time since 2007, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal income growth ranged from 14.8 percent in Odessa, Texas to 1.0 percent in Rochester, Minnesota. Personal income in the United States rose 5.2 percent in 2011, up from 3.8 percent in 2010. Inflation, as measured by the national price index for personal consumption expenditures, accelerated to 2.4 percent in 2011 from 1.9 percent in 2010.


The full text of the release on BEA's Web site can be found at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/lapi/ ... elease.htm