Dr. Benjamin Holton, Senior Director of Georgia Tech’s STAMPS Student Health Services, discusses the next-step safety measures STAMPS and the Georgia Tech community are taking to reopen campus for the Fall 2020 school semester.
Mobility in Georgia dropped dramatically in early March when public safety precautions were first put into place. Between April 7th and June 5th, general mobility grew steadily, and, since June 19th, it has held steady at around 80% of typical mobility values. Fulton County has seen a rapid increase in the mobility beginning on July 6th that has continued in the last few weeks.
Mobility in Georgia dropped dramatically in early March when public safety precautions were first put into place. Between April 7th and June 5th, general mobility grew steadily, and there was a surge in mobility in urban and suburban counties in early July. Since then, mobility values have hovered between 60-70% of typical travel periods.
MARTA provides service to 1.7 million residents in Metro Atlanta through buses, vans, and rail, providing essential mobility to many kinds of travelers. See how MARTA continues to provide service through bus and rail modes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
TSA Checkpoint TSA checkpoint numbers have remained stagnant over the past week. Foot traffic never exceeded 750k, and the weekly average was 18,839 less than it was last week (668K vs. 649k). This marks the first week that the weekly average of passenger throughput has declined in nearly 4 Months. As the rate of new […]
Restaurant Reservations Reservations showed a slight increase this week in Georgia—climbing 1.24% over last week’s average, from being down 58.9% to 57.7%. The US average stayed stable this week, around 61% over last year. Casual Dining, fast Food, and Bars Casual Dining in the southeast saw a slight 1.3% increase this week, from being down […]
Weekly Recap In the July 17th edition of the Paycheck Protection Program report, the Small Business Administration released updated loan approval data. The cumulative amount of loans outstanding in GA increased by 2,121—from 158,328 to 160,449 active loans. The cumulative dollar amount of loans in GA increased by $31,280,680—from $14.332 Billion to $14.363 Billion. While […]
Based on the indexed performance of the top 30 municipal bonds in Georgia for the week of July 20-24, the bonds are up 2.4% YTD, and up 0.1% since last week, showing little change.
Preliminary initial unemployment claims were down 31% from the previous week. All industries saw declines in claims except for Health Care & Social Assistance and Manufacturing.
Based on an index of the largest public firms in Georgia for the week of July 20-24, the Georgia public firms index rose 1.8% this week in price, a slowdown from last week. The index is down -6.1% YTD.
Photo of an undetermined Georgia Tech home game during the 1918 college football season. That's when the sport was hit by the Spanish flu and the end of World War I.
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