Who’s Working from Home?
So, with limited RTO, who can and is working from home?
Payday Lenders, Pawn Shops, and Check Cashers: A Deeper Spatial Dive
Locating (Payday) Lenders in the context of targeted populations
Payday Lenders and Banking Swamps
Food and banking access is low in many areas where payday lending thrives
Banking Deserts and Banking Droughts: A Deeper Dive
Trudging deeper into those banking deserts (and it's hot, per usual)
The Decline of Bank Branches and the Rise of Atlanta Banking Deserts
Hard to find (and save) money in the (banking) desert
Poverty Trends: Zooming to the County
There is large variation in poverty at the county level, but generally positive trends (that is, declining rates)
Income Inequality and Black Wealth: Opinions from Metro Atlanta Speaks
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?
Metro Atlanta Speaks 2021: Assessing Stressors on Finance
The pandemic has brought emotional stress to all, driven in great measure by health and financial concerns. This post looks at Metro Atlanta Speaks data on our residents' ability (or lack thereof) to readily access funds for an emergency, comfortably make housing payments, and avoid food insecurity.
Regional Snapshot: 2021 Metro Atlanta Speaks in Summation
Metro Atlanta Speaks...we have given you most of the rest (v.v. tools to view the information), now check out the best (summary, that is).
Regional Snapshot: Dynamics of Neighborhood Change, 2000-2019
June's regional snapshot traces the socioeconomic and demographic change as reflected in and through two decades of census- tract level population shifts in the Atlanta Region. These meta-trends are clearly illustrative of increased race and class segregation across the area.