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Thursday, June 22, 2017 Contact: Ann Norris, (301) 278-9003 Real Personal Income for States, 2015 Growth of real state personal income — a state’s current-dollar personal income adjusted by the state’s regional price parity (RPP) and the national personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price index — ranged from -2.3 percent in North Dakota to 7.0 percent in Delaware. States with the fastest growth in real personal income were Delaware (7.0 percent), Oregon (6.1 percent), and California (6.1 percent). The District of Columbia’s real personal income grew 6.6 percent. The only state with declining real personal income was North Dakota (-2.3 percent). States with the slowest growth in real personal income were Wyoming (0.5 percent), Nebraska (0.7 percent), and Oklahoma (1.3 percent). States with the highest all items RPPs were Hawaii (118.8), New York (115.3), New Jersey (113.4), and California (113.4). The District of Columbia’s RPP was 117.0. States with the lowest all items RPPs were Mississippi (86.2), Alabama (86.8), and Arkansas (87.4). Across states, Hawaii had the highest rents RPP (163.4) and Alabama had the lowest (62.8). BEA data—including GDP, personal income, the balance of payments, foreign direct investment, the input-output accounts, and economic data for states, local areas, and industries—are available on the BEA Web site: www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release of Real Personal Income for States and Metropolitan Areas for 2016 will be in June 2018.