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Per Capita GDP Data for Jackson Metropolitan Area
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has made several revisions to the GDP data for 2010 and following is a chart showing the Per Capita GDP for the Jackson Metropolitan Area from 2001 through 2010. As the chart shows, the per capita GDP for the Jackson MSA did not get back to 2007 levels in 20...
State Farm Insurance Supports International Economic Summit at Mississippi College
State Farm Insurance agents gave a $3,000 boost to this fall’s International Economic Summit at Mississippi College this fall. School of Business Dean Marcelo Eduardo and others were delighted to receive the big check in the lobby at Self Hall on Wednesday. “It means the world ...
The challenge of long-term unemployment
Sara Murray over at the Wall Street Journal (see link below) has an article with data by state about the continuing challenge of long-term unemployment. The article has a very interesting interactive graph that lets you explore the data by state. The following information for Mis...
AON Hewitt Consulting looks at loans from 401ks
The consulting firm AON Hewitt has a new report (see link below) examining the “leakage of participants’ DC assets” and it isn’t pretty. It is just another example of what happens when unemployment become a major issue. Below is one graph f...