Global Commerce 2nd Quarter 2012

http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/globalcommerce.html 

Dr. Steven Livingston examines trends and changes in Tennessee's county-level export activity. Mexico became the first country other than Canada to import more than $1 billion in Tennessee products in one quarter. [more]

Tennessee County Data Update

http://tinyurl.com/6opk47g 

Economic indicators for 95 Tennessee counties updated through March 2012 with graphs, including labor force, employment, unemployment, unemployment rate, state sales tax trend, and real estate transfer tax trend. [Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery]

Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery

See page 4: http://www.tncounties.org/files/TN_County_News_Jan-Feb2012.pdf

Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery website ( http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/tacir/tacir.html ) is profiled on page 4 of the current issue of Tennessee County News, a publication of the Tennessee County Services Association.

The Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery site features the latest economic data as well as a five-year history for the state, 95 counties, and 10 metropolitan statistical areas. It is produced by MTSU's Business and Economic Research Center in partnership with TACIR (Tennessee Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations).

Data for counties includes:

• labor force
• employment
• unemployment
• unemploymne rate
• state sales tax trend
• real estate transfer tax trend

Data for the state and 10 MSAs include:

• sales tax
• unemployment
• nonfarm employment
• total employment
• total housing permits

Graphs are also included for:

• nonfarm employment
• nonfarm employment growth
• unemployment rate
• sales tax collections
• single-family building permits