Arkansas Business and Economic Review articles from March 1998

Arkansas Business and Economic Review archives from March 1998

Black-white differences in household income in the state of Arkansas, 1989: results of a regression analysis.
March 22, 1998... Introduction Writing at the turn of the century (1903), the pioneering African-American scholar W.E.B. DuBois prophetically declared that "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." As the Twentieth Century draws...

Travel patterns in Northwest Arkansas.
March 22, 1998... Introduction Travel patterns in rural and suburban areas have changed to accommodate the socioeconomic and demographic shifts that occurred in the U.S. over the last two decades. There is an increasing need to develop transportation planning...

1997 population estimates for Arkansas counties.
March 22, 1998... Introduction According to information that was recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Arkansas increased by 7.3 percent from 1990 to 1997. During this period, the total population grew by 172,195 people - from 2,350,624...

Strong economic growth and high employment levels define the first quarter of 1998. (Arkansas)
March 22, 1998... U.S. and Arkansas Employment In the first quarter of 1998, real gross domestic product (GDP) rose at a 4.8 percent seasonally adjusted annual rate. This was an increase of 0.6 percentage points from the advance estimate. However, real net...