Report: Cobb County tops the list of places where the rent is too damn high for poor people
Well, no matter how statisticians choose to quantify the chasm between the country's haves and have-nots; metro Atlanta keeps coming out on top. The latest: an Urban Institute study that shows three metro counties rank in the top 10 for an affordable housing gap.
How We Rank: Study says Georgia is tenth worst in quality of life
If you’re trying to stay positive on a gray and rainy Monday, this probably isn’t going to help. The financial news and opinion website Wall St. 24/7 recently ranked Georgia as tenth worst state in terms of quality of life.
Survey: Atlanta ranks No. 8 for good-looking people
In a recent reader survey by Travel + Leisure ranking America’s Most and Least Attractive People, our fairer than fair metro came in at No. 8.
Georgia Tech named 8th greenest campus
All those smarties at Georgia Tech are keeping the Earth green and maybe themselves healthier in the process. The university was No. 8 on Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools” list of America’s greenest campuses.
Atlanta: Highest rate of income inequality in the U.S.
You don’t have to be a statistician or policy analyst to understand that there’s a huge gap between Atlanta’s haves and haves-not. Just walk down Edgewood Avenue on any given evening, where you will find one group of people sleeping on the sidewalks of the Downtown Connector underpass and another paying $20 for parking spots in an empty lot near a bar called Church.
Atlanta is the 40th most active city
Feeling cocky because you ran the Peachtree yesterday? Hosting America's largest 10k might have something to do with the fact that we're in the top half of America's best places for exercise.
Atlanta: Kinda fit
When it comes to being in shape, Atlantans are so-so. Our city ranked about in the middle (No. 21) on the American College of Sports Medicine's fittest cities list.
Atlanta’s (non) upward mobility: ‘Better quality public education is consequential’
Editor’s note: Plenty of media types have chimed in on the recently released Harvard/Berkeley study that documents the impact of geography on social mobility. And it’s been widely noted—locally and nationally—that metro Atlanta ranks low when it comes to the odds of a child born into the lowest rungs of poverty growing up to be an adult in the wealthiest income bracket. To get perspective, we’re approaching experts outside the media sphere to comment on the study in general and the metro Atlanta findings in particular. Here, Michael Leo Owens, chair of the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association and associate professor of Political Science at Emory University, offers his take.
What I learned riding the rails
Last year there were 1,953 collisions at railroad crossings across the United States—eighty-six in Georgia, which ranks No. 5 in the nation.
We like NYE, religion, and learning pole dancing
Here's an event idea: a NYE party in a church with plenty of columns that the waitresses use for pole dancing. It should sell out in a minute. At least according to Eventbrite.
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