Rethinking Poverty and Income Inequality
In recent years, we have been consistently told that income inequality is on the rise and that the war on poverty declared in the 1960’s has been a failure. The Economist magazine stated bluntly that “it is a truth universally acknowledged that inequality in the rich...
The Changing Healthcare Landscape
The spatial pattern of health care delivery has long been dominated by the clustering of services around hospitals. Most specialist care can be found there, in groups of medical offices in the surrounding area. While general practitioners tend to be more spatially...
Spatial Time Series Analysis: A Cautionary Note
Understanding the patterns of change at a local level is always an important component of location research. Is the area growing or declining over time? Have there been significant shifts in the demographic makeup? How is the business landscape changing? Is overall...
Retail Employment Change
The restrictions imposed on retail oriented businesses during the COVID pandemic had substantial effects on retail employment. At a local level, the effects were very much dependent upon the particular type of retail and the specific policies enacted at local and...
August 2023 Round-Up
At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from August 2023. Vox Remember when...
The Decline of Public School Enrollment
Around 56.8 million kids return to school this month to attend grades 1-12, and nearly 6.5 million of them won’t be attending the local public school. In the last few years, private school enrollment has increased for various reasons, but it isn’t an equal increase...
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