This week's Friday Factday highlights data from the Q3 2017 update to The Quarter, The Atlanta Regional Commission's quarterly publication exploring leading indicators of overall economic health from a non-economist's view. This week, we dig into the most recent S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index numbers. The Case-Shiller index is the leading indicator measuring the [...]
This week the AJC released an article exploring the "digital divide" in metro Atlanta. This division - among those with access to the internet and other digital technologies and those with limited or no access - is potentially stifling the economic prosperity of those residents who lack access by leaving them at a disadvantage [...]
The GINI Index is a calculated value between 0 and 1 that is intended to represent the degree of inequality within a given area. The index can be calculated for an array of indicators but is most commonly used to measure income inequality. On the chart above the GINI Index is representing the inequality [...]
Each year, on the first Monday in September, Atlanta joins the nation in celebrating Labor Day, honoring the American labor movement of the 19th century. The first Labor Day was celebrated September 5, 1882 and featured a street parade "to exhibit to the public 'the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and [...]
This week's Friday Factday explores the 10-year forecasted replacement demand for the twenty top occupations [as determined by location quotient (LQ)] for the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). These data are sourced from Chmura Economics and are part of their JobsEQ Occupational Snapshot. Replacement demand is a component of total occupational demand that comprises openings due [...]
The uptick in construction activity since the great recession has generated many new residential building projects in the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). While some of the new housing in these projects has been designated affordable, it appears that these newer constructed buildings are demanding higher rents than their older counterparts. The first chart below [...]
Last month, Pew Research Center released an article highlighting national growth in manufacturing output (as measured by GDP) despite a decline in manufacturing employment ("Most Americans unaware that as U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared, output has grown," July 25, 2017). Do these trends hold true for metro Atlanta? The state of Georgia? This week's [...]
