• TIGC’s slightly belated hot take on Tuesday’s PSC massacre

    TIGC’s slightly belated hot take on Tuesday’s PSC massacre

    Georgia Democrats have historically done a good job of registering voters and a lousy job of getting them to the polls. On this past Tuesday, they did a much better job on the second part. The drubbing of two incumbent Republican Public Service Commission members, Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson, was by any measure historic.…

The PCI Files

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.

Politics

Articles from other media about important rural issues

Column: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems

BY MICHAEL HILTZIK

‘Everything is on the table’ as Georgia lawmakers consider lifting hospital construction limits

BY JILL NOLIN

Bill Seeks To Pump $50 Billion Into Rural America to Attract Much-Needed Workforce

BY Kristi Eaton

In America’s “internal colonies,” the poor die far younger than richer Americans

BY AIMEE PICCHI

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    … Hayslett has documented the widening gulf between rural and urban Georgia with an unrelenting avalanche of facts and figures.
    The Jolt
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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    TIGC has compiled some startling numbers demonstrating the deep divide between Georgia’s rural and urban counties in almost every area that matters. I recommend this free blog to your attention. Amidst the constant swirl of hype and opinion surrounding us, Charlie’s insights are refreshingly fact-based and candid—good information, regardless of your politics.
    Pete McCommons
    Publisher, The Flagpole, Athens, Ga

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    This is not just another blog… If you want data and evidence of Georgia’s rural-urban disparities, look no further.
    Jan Nijman
    Director, Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University

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    Through Trouble in God’s Country, Charlie Hayslett sets out the predicament and disparity of the rural areas of Georgia that we love and cherish but fear losing with documented facts and the truth.
    DuBose Porter
    Executive Editor, The Dublin Courier Herald Publishing Company

Golden Oldies

A collection of vintage TIGC stories that still attract reader interest

Politics

  • Elections really do have consequences

    Pregnant women in Franklin County and neighboring areas of northeast Georgia can no longer deliver babies at St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital just outside Lavonia. But Georgians and, indeed, all Americans now have the privilege of being able to buy gun silencers without having to pony up a $200 tax. How, you might wonder, are…

  • Carter’s funeral and Trump’s inaugural: Bookends to a troubled half-century

    After nearly two years in hospice care at his home in Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter passed away Sunday afternoon at the age of 100.  His family had said a few months ago that the nation’s 39th president was set on hanging on until he could cast his vote for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.  He…

  • Early TIGC notes on the 2020 election and the two political Georgias

    Early TIGC notes on the 2020 election and the two political Georgias

    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 Democratic nominee Joe Biden are carrying the same counties their parties have carried in the past few election cycles, as this map illustrates. Trump will carry…

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