ATLANTA—Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business questions the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) December dot chart in which the Federal Reserve calls for three rate hikes in 2017.
ATLANTA—The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates at its December meeting and the surprise of President-elect Donald Trump will not change that, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
ATLANTA—Despite economic recovery and job growth in Georgia, rural communities are struggling more than other parts of the state, according to a report by Georgia State University’s Center for State and Local Finance.
A severe lack of investment, especially in technology, explains why gross domestic product (GDP) growth has stalled, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
Single mothers in Georgia who participate in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) experience greater income mobility than males, whites and people with disabilities according to a study by Georgia State University economists.
Despite last week’s media reports hinting at a June rate hike after the Federal Reserve’s May meeting, expect Janet Yellen and company to wait until March 2017 for an interest rate increase, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
When the Treasury Department announced in April that Harriet Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, some joked that all cash will be gone by 2030, when the new bills would reach wide circulation. Don't be so sure, Georgia State experts say.
Georgia State University sociologists and their colleagues at the City University of New York have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study community land trusts, one way American cities can address the shortages of safe, affordable housing and their effects on residents.
Charter school graduates earn more than students who attend conventional public schools, according to the first large-scale study of the effects of charter schools on earnings in adulthood.
Nearly 70 percent of Rwandans have cell phones, but only a small fraction have reliable electricity. How one entrepreneur is using solar energy to solve infrastructure problems that have plagued the country for decades.
