BEA’s latest look at state consumer spending shows increases in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2025. Spending ...

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BEA employs approximately 40 Ph.D. economists and statisticians who engage in cutting-edge research in challenging measurement areas such as non-market production, valuation and depreciation of ...

A blog post from BEA Director Vipin Arora “The reporting system that has been developed under the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Acts approaches the ideal as a source for income estimates.” ...

We use data from surveys that ask people how they spend their time. The United States is the only country that collects these statistics every year; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has been ...

Personal outlays —the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $190.7 billion in August. Personal saving was $990.2 billion, and the personal saving ...

The U.S. current-account deficit resulting from international economic transactions widened by $33.4 billion, or 15.7 percent, to $246.0 billion in the second quarter of 2026, according to statistics ...