BEA on TV and radio: How Consumers are Fairing Across States

Ian Mead and Mark Hamrick talked about two reports from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on U.S. household spending and economic wellbeing through the recession of the late 2000s and the subsequent recovery. They also spoke about the amount consumers spend by state and the quarterly statistics on the economic activity generated by each state.

C-SPAN Washington Journal (August 22, 2014)

BEA on TV and radio: A Look at GDP and Ways to Measure Well-Being

Gross domestic product, the total dollar value of goods and services sold in the U.S., has become fundamental to American economic policy. But there are other essential assets, qualities and conditions that GDP can't measure, like the health of the environment or society. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at another way of measuring progress that takes more of these variables into account.

 

PBS NewsHour (April 28, 2014)