One of the things I’ve been working on lately is a piece ranking all 159 Georgia counties nationally on a range of socioeconomic measures. The last chunk of data […]
For more than a year, TIGC has been focused in no small part on the inexplicable collapse of Georgia’s per capita income (PCI) performance. We’ve documented that disproportionate shares of our population and huge swaths of our geography have fallen into the bottom national ranks for various important economic metrics, including — in addition to PCI — median household income, poverty and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. We’ve come to regard this as a major part of the TIGC story and plan to maintain a sharp focus on it.
Articles from other media about important rural issues
A collection of vintage TIGC stories that still attract reader interest
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist, seems even gloomier than usual these days, especially about the state of rural America. He recently went up […]
If football is a game of inches, politics is one of fractions — a glacial shift in demographics, incremental growth in voter registration, tiny changes in voter turnout. In […]
Trouble in God’s Country’s preliminary take on Tuesday’s still-being-counted presidential election results: First, Georgia’s overall political map won’t change much if at all. President Trump, the Republican incumbent, and […]