Graphs

If you cannot view the graphs from the links on Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery site (on this page, for example), please email BERC with "graph not showing" in the subject line and let us know what operating system and browser you are using. Thank you for your assistance as we try to make data as accessible as possible.

Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery

TACIR (Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations) has partnered with BERC to provide a website to track the state economy during the recovery from the recession that began in December 2007. The site will permit the reader to follow labor force status including employment and unemployment numbers, housing data including a housing price index and construction activity, and sales tax collections. These data are available for the state and for 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas across the state. Presented graphically, the data may also be downloaded for use at the reader’s convenience.
(Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery)

Nashville MSA December Economic Indicators

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/updatestables.html

NewsChannel5: MorningLine: Jobs and Economy

Interview with BERC Director David A. Penn

Tennessee Housing Market Brief

4th Quarter 2009 (supported by a THDA grant): Sales are 20% higher for Nashville, 9.8% for Memphis, and 16.9% for Knoxville. Job creation is needed to solidify recent housing market gains. (pdf) -

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/housingbrief.html

Building Permits Update

Tennessee, Nashville MSA, and available midstate county data (.xls) -

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/database.html

Global Commerce: Trade Adjustment Assistance

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/globalcommerce.html -

Global Commerce Newsletter: "Recent Trends in Trade Adjustment Assistance: Signs of Stress in the Tennessee Economy?" by Steven G. Livingston: "One of the few programs for those who are harmed by trade is the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, enacted by Congress nearly 50 years ago. The larger the usage of the TAA, the greater the stress the local economy may be experiencing.... (full story)

Nashville Real Estate Market Recovers Slowly

From the Tennessean: "It's going to take several years of employment growth to get commercial real estate back to where it wants to be," said economist David Penn of Middle Tennessee State University.

- http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100201/BUSINESS01/2010326/Nashville-real-estate-market-recovers-slowly