Economics Research Guide

The regional economic accounts tell us about the geographic distribution of U.S. economic activity and growth. The estimates of gross domestic product by state and state and local area personal income, and the accompanying detail, provide a consistent framework for analyzing and comparing individual state and local area economies.

Based on the BEA REIS database, PNREAP automatically adjusts income data for inflation and provides graphs, charts, tables, and some analysis of the data for all of the counties in the Pacific Northwest (OR, WA, ID, MT, NV).

News database that can be limited to Montana newspapers to find local economic stories