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Thu., December 29, 2011 3:25pm
Georgia is gaining people more slowly than at any time in the past decade. That’s what new Census Bureau estimates say about the state's population for the year ending last July. Georgia, however, is still one of the fastest-growing states in the country, behind Florida, Texas and California.
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Mon., September 26, 2011 2:32pm
One in four Georgia children is now living in poverty, according to the census. And thirty-six percent of the state’s black children and more than 40 percent of its Hispanic children are destitute
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Thu., September 22, 2011 3:59pm
New figures from the U.S. Census show poverty is rising in Albany’s Dougherty County faster than in any of the state’s largest counties. The county had the nation’s second-highest jump in poverty since 2007, and reflect trends throughout the state.
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Wed., September 14, 2011 10:04am
The number of Georgians living in poverty rose sharply during the Recession, according to census figures released Tuesday. Poverty is also on the rise nationally but the decline in median income is much steeper in Georgia.
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Mon., August 29, 2011 3:50am
Most of the babies in Georgia are now black, Hispanic or another minority, according to 2010 Census data. That’s a big shift from a decade ago, when more than half of those babies were white.
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Thu., July 21, 2011 10:51am
US Census figures show, the number of couples identifying themselves as living in same-sex households in Georgia is up 55% from ten years ago. Statistics released Thursday show, the state has nearly 30,000 households self-reporting as having a same-sex couple. A demographer says, the official figure doesn't include all of Georgia's same-sex couples.
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Mon., May 23, 2011 11:36am
State lawmakers will continue to seek public input this week on how to redraw the state's political boundaries. But people attending the redistricting meetings probably won't hear much from lawmakers.
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Fri., March 25, 2011 2:34pm
Lawmakers will be back at the Capitol this summer for a special session. They need to redraw legislative maps from new census data. And the redistricting effort is already off to a rough start.
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Wed., March 23, 2011 1:09pm
Census Bureau data show Georgia's total state government tax collections dropped about 8 percent in fiscal year 2010. Georgia collected about $14.8 billion in taxes in fiscal year 2010, down from about $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2009. Revenues had dropped about 11 percent the year before.
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Tue., March 15, 2011 12:22pm
Detailed Census numbers for Georgia are expected this week. And it’s information that the state’s political leadership will be keenly focused-on. The numbers set the table for the process of redrawing districts in the state.
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