NEWS & OPINIONS
A Community Responds to Need (or Good News You’ll Never See in Mainstream Media)
A Community Responds to Need (or Good News You’ll Never See in Mainstream Media) By Eric Cochling Just seven months in and it’s fair to say that 2020 has been one of the most disastrous years in modern American history. The very...
Highlighting Legislation Passed in the 2020 Georgia Legislative Session
Highlighting Legislation Passed in the 2020 Georgia Legislative Session By Buzz Brockway Ordinarily, the Georgia Legislature would have wrapped up its 40-day legislative session by the end of March. But 2020 is no ordinary year. As the pandemic spread, the Legislature...
Now more than ever, we need authentic compassion
Now more than ever, we need authentic compassion By Katherine Greene“Our human compassion binds us to one another—not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” We have a unique opportunity...
Self Compassion Skills to Mitigate PTSD | HEALTHY @ HOME
Join us this week as we soak up the wisdom of expert Pamela Madsen, while she walks us through the steps of self compassion.
Boundaries Define Us
Boundaries Define Us By Joyce Mayberry “Boundaries define us. They define what is me and what is not me. A boundary shows me where I end and someone else begins, leading me to a sense of ownership. Knowing what I am to own...
Hiring Well Doing Good | Breakthrough Podcast
Hiring Well, Doing Good is ramping up in Columbus!
We recently received the alarming news that 40% of low-income households across the U.S. reported a job loss in March due to shutdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic. Closer to home here in Georgia, Columbus faces a rising unemployment rate (12.2% as of April) that is...
All Georgians Deserve to Participate in The Economic Recovery
All Georgians Deserve to Participate in The Economic Recovery By Buzz Brockway The Coronavirus pandemic has caused massive numbers of people to lose their jobs. Georgia’s official unemployment rate is 9.7%. However, as we reported last week , many others are not...
What’s Georgia’s Real Unemployment Number?
What’s Georgia’s Real Unemployment Number? By Erik RandolphDon’t be fooled by Georgia’s unemployment rate. While many are breathing a sigh of relief that barely one in ten Georgian’s are out of work, the reality is much worse. Georgia’s unemployment rate (U-3) dropped...
To Rebuild Trust in Law Enforcement, We Must Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws
To Rebuild Trust in Law Enforcement, We Must Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws By Buzz Brockway In the wake of the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and now Rayshard Brooks, issues of racism and questions about use of force by police...
How Local Businesses are Helping Workers and Feeding the Hungry During the Pandemic
Restaurant workers and the impoverished are two categories of people particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and its economic devastation. An estimated 8 million restaurant workers have been out of work nationally, while 39 percent of households earning...
Mental Wellness during COVID-19 for Children and Adolescents | HEALTHY @ HOME
Discover how to recognize the mental wellness of the children in your home and helping them adjust to struggling times. Special guest licensed professional counselor, Rebeca Gibbons, shares how our kids now face new obstacles on how to connect and build a healthy...
MEDIA MENTIONS
Georgia policy groups say Biden plan to forgive student loan debt ‘simply transfers the burden to taxpayers’
President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive some federal student loan debt received a lukewarm reaction from some Georgia groups who say the policy is unfair and won’t help ease inflation.
Media Statement: Number of people working hasn’t caught up to pre-pandemic levels
“Friday’s jobs report is being billed as great news, but peeling back a few layers reveals a worse reality,” said Erik Randolph, GCO’s director of research.
Georgia non-adjusted unemployment numbers increase as economy dips into possible recession
There has never been a time when the Business Cycle Dating Committee did not declare a recession when real GDP declined for two consecutive quarters since the availability of quarterly GDP data.
Biden denies recession after GDP decline, but economists say otherwise
There has never been a time when the Business Cycle Dating Committee did not declare a recession when real GDP declined for two consecutive quarters since the availability of quarterly GDP data
Amid Recession Fears, Economically Free States Continue to Outperform
Freer states that were more reluctant to shut down their economies due to COVID-19 are doing much better economically than states with severe shutdowns.
Education Promise Scholarships Should be a Winning Issue
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a watershed moment for expanding educational options for Georgia students. For many parents and families, the pandemic was the crisis point that showed them, in stark reality…
What the June inflation numbers mean for the poor
The inflationary environment in the U.S. and around the world continues to go from bad to worse. On July 13, the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics announced that in June the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1.3%, not seasonally adjusted.
Fixing things at the local level without government
Inflation, recession , and stagflation are on the minds of most people. A recent Wall Street Journal-NORC poll showed that most people think the economy is in trouble. More than 4 in 5 people, 83% of respondents, said the nation's economy is "poor or not so...
