Topic GDP 2.0

Some of our most prominent economic statistics measure change in the total output of the U.S. economy. But this single number approach to economic progress rings hollow with many workers, who wonder why they aren’t seeing prosperity in their own lives. The goal of our GDP 2.0 project is to break down these monolithic numbers and understand how the economy is performing for Americans of different income levels, different regions of the country, and more.

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New research doesn’t overturn consensus on rising U.S. income inequality

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GDP 2.0: Measuring who prospers when the U.S. economy grows

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to modernize federal data collection and improve measurements of U.S. economic inequality

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New digital tools demonstrate the promise of measuring well-being in the United States

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Coronavirus Recession

Structural racism and the coronavirus recession highlight why more and better U.S. data need to be widely disaggregated by race and ethnicity

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Disaggregating growth

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NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up: Week 2

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Canada is the first country to release subannual statistics on the distribution of income. Here’s how it was done.

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Three observations from the kick-off of a new consensus study by the National Academy of Sciences on measuring U.S. economic inequality

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Jobs report: Amid continued job gains, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander workers experience the U.S. labor market in different and often hidden ways

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More frequent disaggregated data on U.S. income inequality would improve economic research and inform policymaking

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Six charts that explain how inequality in the United States changed over the past 20 years

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The U.S. economy is in its fourth decade of rising inequality amid the need for more accurate data on its consequences

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Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Advancing the frontier of economic data creation and measurement

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In Conversation

In Conversation with Jonathan Fisher

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Testimony by Jonathan Fisher before the House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth

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In Conversation

In Conversation with Erica Groshen

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Equitable Recovery

Dispatch from EconCon 2021: Addressing racial and gender stratification in the U.S. economy is key to an equitable and sustainable recovery

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