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Thank you to University of West Georgia’s Richards College of Business for providing the content on UWG Regional Update.  By Hilde Patron, Director of CBER; William J. Smith, Chair of Economics; David J. Boldt, Professor of Economics. Volume 13, Issue 1 Spotlight on Transportation and Warehousing The pandemic has changed not only what we buy,…

Thank you to 33°n Atlanta Regional for providing the content on Atlanta Crime Rates in Historical Perspective (2009-2021).  By Moshe Haspel According to the latest Metro Atlanta Speaks survey, concerns about crime eclipsed all others (including the perennial favorite of transportation) with 32.3% of respondents naming crime as the biggest problem facing the region. These concerns were…

Thank you to 33°n Atlanta Regional for providing the content on Just How Hot is Atlanta’s Housing Market? By Ayush Kumar The nation faces a record-breaking housing shortage, and Atlanta is no exception, with surging interest in homeownership coupling with short supply to create rapid run-ups in prices. Below, we use data from MarketNsight to take the temperature of the market…

Thank you to 33°n Atlanta Regional for providing the content on Income Inequality and Black Wealth: Opinions from Metro Atlanta Speaks.  By Jim Skinner Black History Month draws to a close next week.  This month’s responsive series of blog posts exploring racial disparities concludes with a focus on two more questions in the  Metro Atlanta Speaks (MAS) survey …

Thank you to 33°n Atlanta Regional for providing the content on Got a Raise? You Still Might be Making Less (Than You Were).  By Ayush Kumar Data on recent and speculation about future movement in wages and inflation have been all over the media in the last two months. Putting our recent economic overview together got…

Thank you to 33°n Atlanta Regional for providing the content on Georgia’s Non-Hispanic Black Population, from 2010 to 2020.  By Layla Bellows While any time is a good time to celebrate the state’s Black community, February always gives us a chance to do what we enjoy most — making interactive maps that help us understand how…

Thank you to 33°n Atlanta Regional for providing the content on February Feature – Redlining: Past Policy and Present Inequity.  By Layla Bellows|February 21st, 2022 Redlining was far from the only policy that shaped geographies of exclusion for Black Americans, but it is one that we can look at on a map today and better understand…

Thank you to CO–U.S. Chamber of Commerce for providing the content on How Do You Break into Walmart? 3 Startups on Cracking the Nation’s Biggest Retailer.    Eco Lips, The Fresh Dolls, and Bean Box each took different routes to gaining Walmart distribution. Here’s an insider, step-by-step look at their strategies and navigating challenges. By: Mark…