Category: Economics
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CNBC puts out latest “Top States for Business” rankings, and guess what …
CNBC, the nation’s leading business network, came out this morning with its 2025 list of “America’s Top States for Business” and awarded top honors, once again, to Geor — Oh, wait. No. Not Georgia. North Carolina. Georgia, whose leaders have been crowing for about a decade now about the No. 1 state for business award…
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The TIGC 2022 Georgia county rankings: Per Capita Income
This is the second in a series of posts ranking Georgia counties by various socioeconomic measures. About a week ago I did an initial post ranking the counties based on their population growth over the past three years. Now I’m shifting to economics. In this post, I’ll look at per capita income (PCI), but I’m…
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Georgia vs. North Carolina, Chapter II: Educational Attainment
The second in a series of occasional posts comparing Georgia and North Carolina.
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Comparing Georgia and North Carolina, Chapter I
For a while now, I’ve been noodling on a piece comparing Georgia and North Carolina. The two states are obviously neighbors and have a lot in common. Their economies are similar. Their populations are about as close to identical as you can get (10.7 million for Georgia vs. 10.6 million for North Carolina). They both…
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One government program’s 30-year metamorphosis from well-intentioned economic development initiative to bloated tax giveaway
Recently I learned the General Assembly had established a joint House-Senate study committee to evaluate the various tax credits the state offers as economic development incentives. As it happens, I’ve been working off and on for a while now on a piece about Georgia’s Job Tax Credit (JTC) program and can save the committee some…
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For the 2023 House Rural Development Council, a quick primer on the sad state of Georgia’s rural economy
The Georgia House Rural Development Council begins its seventh year of deliberations on August 29th in Macon. Created in 2017 by the late House Speaker David Ralston, the group — made up primarily of rural legislators — has met several times each year since then and generated annual reports and legislative recommendations. Despite these efforts,…
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Three-fourths of Georgia’s GDP now produced north of the gnat line
About three months ago I stumbled onto a December 2018 report from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) that included four years of newly developed county-level gross domestic product (GDP) data. BEA billed that new set of data as a prototype and announced it would be coming out with an expanded report in December…