In a recent article on Atlanta real estate, the WSJ focused on three newly listed homes in Buckhead. One, with 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, and 5 half baths, lists for $12.5 millions. Another, at $18.8 million, has a ballroom, cigar room, screening room, two gyms, a 20-person steam room, a recording studio, beauty salon and massage room. The least expensive of the three, at $8.5 million, has an infinity-edge pool, a gym with sauna, elevator, billiards room, screening room and wine cellar.
In another section of the WSJ, Jason L. Riley writes about the feud between president-elect Trump and Atlanta Rep. John Lewis and how Donald Trump has a point, should anyone care to read Trump’s full Twitter, about Mr. Lewis’s record as a lawmaker.
“Congressman John Lewis,” wrote Mr. Trump after the lawmaker questioned the legitimacy of the election, “should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk—no action or results. Sad!”
Mr. Lewis, a close ally of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was on the front lines of the successful fight for civil rights, but, as Mr. Riley points out, since he was first elected to Congress in 1986, Mr. Lewis he has spent nearly three decades “reminding people what he did before he got there.”
Atlanta has one of the widest gaps in the country between high- and low-income households, according to the Brookings Institution. A 2015 report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that although Atlanta “is considered an economic powerhouse and ‘black mecca,’ its wealth and promise don’t extend to many of its residents, particularly those of color, who struggle to make ends meet, get family-supporting jobs and access quality education.”
… to Mr. Trump’s point, what do Mr. Lewis’s mostly black constituents in Atlanta have to show for his time in Washington representing them? Atlanta has one of the widest gaps in the country between high- and low-income households, according to the Brookings Institution. A 2015 report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that although Atlanta “is considered an economic powerhouse and ‘black mecca,’ its wealth and promise don’t extend to many of its residents, particularly those of color, who struggle to make ends meet, get family-supporting jobs and access quality education.” The study found that incomes for Atlanta’s white residents were more than triple those of blacks; the high school graduation rate was 57% for blacks and 84% for whites; and black unemployment in Atlanta was 22%, versus a city average of 13% and a white rate of 6%.
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