The unemployment rate that is typically reported in the media is based on a survey from 150,000 business establishments on weekly earnings, number of workers and hours worked based on a survey of 150,000 households reported on a monthly basis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported by the Federal Reserve none of the above A good example of a policy to increase an economy's saving rate is to reduce poverty to increase the economic growth rate to increase government spending to increase sales taxes to reduce interest rates The total income earned by residents of an economy is known as gross national product private disposable income gross domestic product national income none of the above