Tag: Education
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Updating TIGC’s Gwinnett County-South Georgia comparison, Part II: Education
A week or so ago I published a post that looked at South Georgia’s population trends. This was the first of what will likely be four or more posts […]
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Rural Georgia never recovered from the Great Recession. Now comes COVID-19
There’s a persistent pattern I’ve noticed in various buckets of economic, population, and education data, but I’ve never fully connected the dots or taken a stab at suggesting what […]
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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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Rural Georgia: Doing its part to send Metro Atlanta kids to college
One recurring theme in my Trouble in God’s Country research is that Metro Atlanta is paying the lion’s share of taxes in Georgia while consuming a much smaller portion of […]
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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. […]