Tag: Economics
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Covid-19 may stir a perfect storm for rural Georgia
When I began work on this project some years back and came up with the title “Trouble in God’s Country,” I was thinking about things like the urban-rural divide […]
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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 […]
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Thanks, Mr. President, for giving us a new way to think about Georgia’s declining regions
By Charles Hayslett File this under every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining. President Trump’s characterization of Haiti and various South American and African countries as “shitholes” may have torpedoed a DACA deal, triggered a […]
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South Georgia vs. Gwinnett County
Here’s an easy way to understand the widening gap between Metro Atlanta and the rest of Georgia. Compare all 56 counties of interior South Georgia to Gwinnett County alone. […]