Capitol Corner
Economic Incentives and Workforce Gaps: Rethinking Georgia’s Film Tax Credit Model
In the past two decades, Georgia has become the epicenter of many film and television productions, rivaling Hollywood in many blockbuster productions. However, Georgia also has influence within the award-winning sector tied to these productions, such as the Peabody Awards, which has played a major role in honoring excellence within storytelling that properly reflects current […]
Closing the Gap: Aligning Georgia’s Schools with Workforce Needs
With programs such as the Zell Miller and HOPE scholarships making college education more accessible to Georgia students, university enrollment is often presented as the primary path to success. This approach can leave students who would thrive in trades without a clear direction. Georgia’s high schools are not providing adequate career counseling and exposure to […]
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 […]