Ah, fall is in the air. The mornings are becoming increasingly crisp and cool, the stores are unpacking all of their Halloween merchandise, football season is in full swing, and metro Atlanta students returned to school six weeks ago! If your children are college age, returning to school this semester may have meant taking [...]
This month's Regional Snapshot looks at automation and the potential impact on metro Atlanta jobs. Which occupations are at greater risk for automation? Which jobs are "safe?" Read on for the answers to these questions, and more… Highlights from this snapshot: Overall, employment growth is strong in metro Atlanta, but several occupations that [...]
As the Southeast pulls together in the wake of Hurricane Irma, charitable giving is in the forefront of our minds at ARC. This week's Monday Mapday highlights charitable contributions by zip code in metro Atlanta. Overall, metro Atlantans are a charitable bunch, with zip codes shaded in dark brown in the map below representing [...]
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 Monday Mapday explores time spent online in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The map below shows the percentage of the adults,* by zip code, that spent an average of 2 to 4.9 hours online in a typical day. Areas shaded in dark blue (including areas of Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, [...]
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 [...]
DO NOT VIEW THE ECLIPSE WITHOUT SPECIAL "ECLIPSE GLASSES." CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS. A full solar eclipse will be visible across the continental United States today, with the best viewing in Georgia in the northeastern counties of Fannin, Union, Towns, White, Rabun, Habersham, Stephens, Franklin, Hart, and Elbert. In these counties the Moon will completely [...]
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 [...]
