{"245081":{"#nid":"245081","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Poverty still Atlanta\u0027s worst problem says Prof. Dobbins","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe opportunity to make a dent in Atlanta\u0027s shameful 20 to 25 percent poverty rate is right now according to Mike Dobbins, a professor of planning at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of City and Regional Planning. The BeltLine, Fort McPherson, the Atlanta Falcons replacement stadium, and the Multimodal Passenger Terminal collectively represent roughly $5 billion in development in and around some of the city\u0027s \u0022most neglected and ignored citizens and their neighborhoods.\u0022 One strategy borrowed from the London 2012 Olympics and outlined by Dobbins is a binding compact for hiring residents from the six Neighborhood Planning Units surrounding the project sites and a complementary job development organization to train residents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/amplifier.gatech.edu\/articles\/2013\/10\/atlanta-%E2%80%9Ccan-do%E2%80%9D-better-reduce-poverty\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Amplifier\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2013-10-14 15:30:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:43","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"middlebury","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/atlanta-can-do-better-to-reduce-poverty-with-more-jobs-opportunities\/","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"471","name":"beltline"},{"id":"76751","name":"community benefits agreement"},{"id":"76741","name":"falcons stadium multimodal passenger terminal"},{"id":"14332","name":"fort mcpherson"},{"id":"5148","name":"mike dobbins"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}