Morning Metro: Missing Tongue, Eddie’s In Place, and Underpopulation
Decatur Metro | | 9:31 am
- Decatur cow misplaces tongue ad [Craigslist]
- “Eddie Owen Presents” could start at Red Clay Theater as early as Thanksgiving [Patch]
- Fall food: Maple Bacon Butternut Squash Soup [AJC]
- U.S. income inequality highest in Atlanta [Reuters]
- AJC outsources design to “sister-papers” [Fresh Loaf]
- “Nobody wants to occupy the strip mall or the office park or the park and ride lot.” [Atlantic Cities]
- “Overpopulation isn’t the problem: it’s too few babies” [Newgeography]
Photo courtesy of Chris P via Flickr
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I’ll start this one off because I’ve got a question about the “income gap” article that’s making the rounds.
Atlanta has the largest income disparity gap in the country. Can someone tell me why? None of the articles detail this to any extent. Why some cities have high disparities and others have smaller disparities. If I knew that, maybe then I could figure out how I feel about it.
I think it make perfect sense. I assume they are measuring Atlanta proper and not the metro area. Living in north Atlanta/Buckhead along West Paces Ferry we have billionaires like Ann Cox Chambers. About 10 miles south we have poverty lined Bankhead Highway and massive poverty pockets in south Atlanta. Atlanta is really a small city- what 400,000? I can see why the disparity is so huge.
If I recall correctly, the article does say that the disparity is when measuring inside the actual city limits only. When the entire metro area is taken into consideration, the disparity is not so stark.
Thanks for catching that. I skimmed the article and missed that point
I just don’t understand the breakdown by city. What causes larger disparities in Atlanta than in other cities? Is it really local and state government policies, as is sort of implied by this breakdown, or is it migration patterns or the way that metro areas are defined?
And doesn’t it actually mean anything? I thought the income disparity was more of a national topic than a local one. As such, I find this particular breakdown odd.
Yeah… that article needs a lot more context and analysis. It raises more questions than it answers.
Maybe this only tells us that the upper income folks haven’t fled Atlanta for the suburbs.
Atlanta proper is such a small city amid a large metropolitan area that I just can’t see the point of this particular statistic.
I’m certainly happy to hear that I didn’t totally miss the boat on that article. At the same time I’m sorta disappointed.
If you want to see how how severely bipolar the city is, take the Beltline bus tour. The difference between South and North side is extreme. The tour doesn’t cover the Paces Ferry part of Buckhead, but if it did the contrast would be even greater. Some of the areas on the SW side are like third world countries.
Oh my god…..I did not need to see that visual of a cow’s tongue. Hahahahaha!
If you didn’t like that, I’d strongly suggest never typing “Cow Tongue” into Google Images. It’s a mixture of the above and pictures of cooked cow’s tongue on a plate.
LOVE the cow tongue photo. It’s like 20 bucks a pound at a deli.
With regards to the ‘underpopulation’, the US is an outlier in western countries as being one with a still growing population, both because of immigration and because recent immigrants have a higher birth rate. I do wish that some of the older and more conservative folks in this country would realize that good social security and medicare funding is made possible by continued immigration. Frankly, we should be relaxing immigration controls rather than trying to tighten them. When someone moves to this country, they earn more than they would otherwise, they often move into under utilized areas, and are a net positive to the economy. Moreover, if the new immigrants do depress wages of current residents, they do so mostly for other recent immigrants who are still getting the benefits of having moved here. Over the long haul, they will help support SS and Medicare by paying taxes and generally using services at a lower rate than non-immigrants of comparable wage levels.
I work at Tech and I also find it appalling that foreign students come here, study hard, earn a PhD, and then are told to leave as soon as they graduate. There should be a blanket policy that everyone that earns a PhD in this country should get, along with their diploma, a green card and path to citizenship.
Hear, hear.
agreed- we are losing valuable resources in which we have already invested.
Just for the record, it wasn’t me who placed the cow ad on Craigslist.
ooooohhhh…cow tongue.
Now I know what I’m going as for halloween!
Hmmmmm…Craigslist has no qualms about posting many, many ads that offer (putting it delicately) every known form of service rendered by the world’s oldest profession, but it yanks a harmless little gag ad from a cow who “lost” its tongue? Curiouser & curiouser!
Was there any kind of send-off for Eddie at the Attic?