Households’ spending on retail goods will continue a four-quarter decline through the second quarter of 2009, with a peak to trough drop of about 10 percent. Although Georgia’s retail recession will be both long and deep, we are about halfway…
We now know what happens when push meets squeeze. As the economic recession deepened in the last six months of 2008, Georgia’s political leaders found themselves squeezed by dropping tax revenues at the same time they were being pushed by…
More than 3.8 million Georgians live in one of the state’s 500-plus cities and are dependent on them and their leaders for everything from police and fire protection to regular garbage pickup. To find our how municipalities are weathering the…
Builders aren’t building and bulldozers are idle. New McMansions sit vacant. Businesses are declaring bankruptcy, and unemployment numbers are growing. Automakers want government bailout money because they can’t sell cars, in part because consumers can’t get loans from skittish banks,…
More than automobile accidents, lung disease or all forms of cancer combined, heart disease is killing Georgians. Each year, more than 17,000 Peach State residents die from heart disease, and surveys show that at least two-thirds of us have one…
Atlanta’s epic, daily traffic congestion, and the hapless drivers who grow old as they creep sluggishly from place to place, have long been the fodder of jokes and ridicule. But as leadership talked much and did very little to loosen…
A sign of the times, perhaps, but the demand for MBAs is rising. Georgia universities and colleges offering Master of Business Administration programs are seeing an increase in inquiries and, in many cases, an uptick in enrollment. Georgia State University’s…
Ciji Fox still isn’t entirely clear about why she uprooted herself from the small Iowa college she was attending back in 2006 to come to Clayton State Uni-versity (CSU) on the south side of Atlanta. “I think I decided to…
Jackson County is like no other county in Georgia. With four cities straddling county borders, and one city in four different counties, it also happens to be next in line for exurban growth coming from two cities – Atlanta to…
Around Georgia and around the world, economic concerns are growing almost by the hour. But in Cherokee County, despite state budget cuts, falling tax revenues, and the housing bust, people are surprisingly upbeat. Located north of Atlanta up Interstate 575,…
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