Earth Day 2019: The City in the Forest is Growing
These animated GIFs show the growth of Atlanta's urbanized areas from 1984 to 2016.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
A Q&A with Prevent Child Abuse Georgia's Naeshia McDowell about what communities can do to help children thrive.
Friday Factday: Brookings Metro Monitor for 2019
As noted recently, we all love a good index, especially when the index aggregates a bunch of different data into "buckets" that make more intuitive sense. And it helps when indices have been "around for a while". In data geek parlance, "around for a while" translates to: 'serve as a longitudinal dataset to allow [...]
Web Wednesday: Opportunities for Connecting the Disconnected (Youth)
The unemployment story is getting better recently -- for all age groups. That's to say, the unemployment rates are lower across the board. But they aren't better equally for everyone. Rates are highest for the 16 to 24 age group, which were up to 20 percent nationally at the height of the recession and [...]
Childhood Poverty in Metro Atlanta, 1990-2017
Generational poverty is an ongoing problem in the metro area. Here's a look at how things have (and haven't) changed since 1990. Editor's note: This post was updated on May 16, 2019 to correct for errors in the 10-county area data and 2017 county-level data.
Five Things to Know About Census 2020
As of Monday, we're just one year out from Census 2020, and even if you're not a demographer or data wonk, we promise it's kind of a big deal. Here's why: It's critical for political representation. If you care about who represents you in Congress, and how much representation you get, then the census update matters [...]
Web Wednesday: The Vitality Index
Everybody loves to rank stuff. The NCAA just seeded teams 1-68 for March Madness, for instance (and, incidentally, may your bracket hopes live long and prosper). But oftentimes rankings neither are useful for comparing things nor predictive of results. Creating an index— AKA, building a composite ranking system — can give much better results, [...]