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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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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Data infrastructure and tribal sovereignty can help break down barriers for Native Americans to build wealth

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

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What federal statistical agencies can do to improve survey response rates among Hispanic communities in the United States

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Equitable Growth provides comments to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on its new distributing personal income report

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Better data collection can help lift the LGBTQ+ community out of economic hardship in the United States

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Inequality in Health Returns to Local Labor Markets: Extraction Booms and Mortality among Native Americans

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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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