Capitol Corner
Elevating Georgia’s Working Class by Restricting Noncompete Agreements
The most fundamental idea of a market economy is that competition benefits everyone. However, by allowing many noncompetes to be enforceable, Georgia stifles the very market principles it exalts with its ‘right-to-work’ law. In reality, Georgia laws do not protect workers or the free market. They protect corporations. On a macroeconomic scale, many studies have […]
The Domino Effect of Poverty: How Athens Can Better Help Its Most Helpless
Many Athens residents don’t need to look at poverty statistics, food insecurity reports or homelessness rates to recognize the reality of hardship—they feel it every day. Choosing unhealthy food because fresh, organic options are priced out of reach. Passing through downtown Athens and seeing homeless neighbors huddled on benches, asking for money or food. Feeling […]