New research from The Health Inequality Project Does where you live affect how long you live? What is the relationship between income and life expectancy? New research from The Health Inequality Project explores the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S. using data from 2001-2014. In addition to exploring the relationship between [...]
OK... we heard you! In response to the great feedback we received on the "Monday Mapday: Millennial Homeowners" post, we decided to further explore this topic. These maps show a more complete picture - they show where Millennials are both renting and owning homes. As you'll see, two completely different patterns emerge. But, before we get there, let's look [...]
The Georgia Department of Education (GADOE) just released the results of a new assessment called Georgia Milestones (”Milestones”). Given in spring of 2015, Georgia Milestones replaces the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) that students had been taking for more than a decade. The new Milestones test is considerably more rigorous, as the old CRCT “set some [...]
Amid the rise of income inequality in both the nation and here in metro Atlanta, many researchers are pointing to the slow growth of middle-wage jobs as one of the culprits behind this phenomenon. And, indeed, in looking at occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there has been hardly any job growth in [...]
The Georgia Department of Education (DOE) recently reported that high school students in the state achieved a 5-point increase in their SAT scores from 2014 to 2015. This improvement comes amidst a 7-point decline in the national average. Broken down by test components, Georgia test-takers achieved an average increase of two points from 488 to [...]
Personal Trips: Where Are People Going? Vehicle trips that just pass through a county without stopping are among the least desirable trip types for places. These trips create traffic jams, wear-and-tear on our roadways, exacerbate air pollution, and, critically, they don’t contribute to the local economy or local road maintenance. The chart above [...]
Median Household Income by High School Attendance Zone, 2014 (Source: ESRI) It’s back-to-school time in the Atlanta region! And while this is hardly ground-breaking research, we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone what one of the best indicators of educational success is - income! We actually tweeted [...]
