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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Year of Living Abercrombie: Recovery Stops, Hawaii Economy Shrinks 0.2%

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News Release June 5, 2012 from US Bureau of Economic Analysis

Real GDP by State, 2008-2011 

Millions of chained (2005) dollars              Percent change

    2008     2009     2010      2011*      2008  2009  2010   2011*    2011 Rank*

Hawaii  60,098  57,313  58,106   57,977        0.9   -4.6    1.4     -0.2            45 

PBN: Hawaii's GDP shrank 0.2 percent in 2011

NYT: Texas Is the Future Some interesting tidbits about the economic health of the 50 states, from the government’s annual estimate of growth by state, released Tuesday:

While the nation’s gross domestic product grew by 1.7 percent in 2011, economic output shrank in five states: Wyoming, down 1.2 percent; Alabama, down 0.8 percent; Mississippi, also down 0.8 percent; Maine, down 0.4 percent; New Jersey, down 0.5 percent; and Hawaii, down 0.2 percent.

CNN: Economic growth in your state Gross domestic product increased in 43 states and the District of Columbia in 2011, according to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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