Learning about Broadband Access for School-Aged Kids

By |2022-04-26T15:41:13-04:00April 26th, 2022|Economic Development, Education, Equity, Mapday, Uncategorized|

Where do the school-aged kids without internet access (or a computer) live in our Atlanta Region?. And are there correlations of higher poverty with the home locations of school-aged kids without access?

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Mapping Life Expectancy

By |2022-04-14T09:37:43-04:00April 13th, 2022|Age and Generations, Mapday, Public Health|

What to expect when looking at life expectancy? First, you'll see wide variation by area, sometimes eve when those areas are not that far apart. Next, anticipate tight correlations (in opposite directions) with lack of health insurance and high poverty rates.

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Inflation: The Most Regressive “Tax” in Atlanta

By |2022-03-25T10:45:09-04:00March 25th, 2022|Economic Development, Economy, Equity, Friday Factday, Race and Diversity|

Inflationary impacts have hit all of us in the pocket over the last year, but research shows that they hit some of us a lot harder than others.

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Commuting: Yeah, It’s Still Kind of a Big Deal

By |2022-03-23T15:49:31-04:00March 23rd, 2022|Data Diversions, Economic Development, Economy, Transportation|

Our updated Commuting Dashboard gives an immediate snapshot of the commuting landscape, and enables custom analysis of patterns by census tracts of job locations and worker residences

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Atlanta Crime Rates in Historical Perspective (2009-2021)

By |2022-03-07T21:46:36-05:00March 4th, 2022|Friday Factday|

Crime is a top concern across the metro. Here, we compare perceptions and reality through an examination of crime rates for the city of Atlanta since 2009. The data reveal that crime rates are near historical lows in most categories.

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Income Inequality and Black Wealth: Opinions from Metro Atlanta Speaks

By |2022-02-25T16:23:34-05:00February 25th, 2022|Economic Development, Economy, Equity, Friday Factday, Metro Atlanta Speaks, Race and Diversity|

How do Atlanta residents rate the importance of enhanced income equality to our economy, and, following on, what seems to be their current knowledge base about the size of the highly related racial wealth gap?

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Black Homeownership: A Look at the 11-County Area, 1980-2019

By |2025-02-06T21:24:40-05:00February 18th, 2022|Friday Factday, Housing|

Our Black population is significantly less likely to own a home than the population as a whole. While this gap has stayed present since 1980, it has narrowed, particularly in the 1990-2010 period.

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