Friday Factday
A closer look at a topics using local-level data, published on Fridays
Friday Factday: Informing Transit Discussion–
What Does Metro Atlanta Speaks Say?
There's been much in the press lately about the continuing public debate regarding possibilities for funding and implementing alternate transportation modes, with particular focus being placed on transit. Part of the discussion has been [...]
Friday Factday: Perceptions of Our Biggest Problem–Atlanta and the State
A Stroll Through Different Polls
Polls have certainly gotten a great deal of attention lately, for better or worse! Despite some of their shortcomings, polls can tell us some very interesting things, particularly when we are able to see [...]
Friday Factday: The Atlanta MSA’s Foreign Born Population:
by Global Region and Country of Origin
People born outside of the United States comprised an estimated 13.7% of the 29-county Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)'s population in 2016 and accounted for an estimated 5.1% of the region's population growth between [...]
Friday Factday: Declines in Mortgage Delinquency–
Masking Lingering Effects of Recession
When it comes to the economy, most of us would likely agree that, while things are better, we "got a ways to go yet". A recent article in the AJC examines the lingering impacts [...]