Personal Finance
The amount of money a person earns during a year
What is income
Atlanta's first African American Mayor
Who is Maynard Jackson?
The year the Olympics were in held in Atlanta
Name two benefits of the film industry in Georgia.
What are an increase in jobs, in tourism and revenue?
Georgia Governor who restructured the entire government of Georgia and changed the format of the states budget.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
What is expenditure?
Friend of MLK Jr and helped with voter registrations throughout the state.
Who is Andrew Jackson Young?
What is 1 billion dollar budget?
Name three factors that help Georgia attract millions of visitors each year.
What are the varied geography (beaches, cities, mountains, history); warm climate; Hartsfield Jackson International Airport that allows millions of tourists to visit each year.
The impact of the project will help manufacturers on the national and global scale.
What is the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project?
An additional amount you pay to use borrowed money.
What is interest?
Name two significant things Maynard Jackson did while in office.
What is added more African Americans to the police force, encouraged Atlanta to become a financial center, expanded international convention centers, improved city housing for the poor, improved mass transit, and helped bring the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta.
Issues Atlanta faces due to the population growth.
What are traffic concerns and/or housing concerns?
The industry with additional tax incentives.
The film and television industry because its economic impact is growing at a faster rate than tourism.
The fourth busiest container port in the US
What is the Port of Savannah?
Using money in hopes of gaining more in the future by lending to businesses in exchange for a share of the profits?
What is investing?
Name two significant things Andrew Jackson Young did while in office.
What is brought 70 million in new investments to Atlanta, brought 1,100 new businesses, 1 million jobs, expanded programs for minority and female owned businesses, tripled college scholarships given to Atlanta public school graduates.
short term impacts of the 1996 Olympics. (name two)
What are Sidewalks, lighting, trees, Centennial Olympic Park new hotel rooms, revitalized downtown area?
This industry employs many people and generates a substantial amount of economic activity in Georgia
What is tourism?
Name two accomplishments of Jimmy Carter.
successful state senator and governor in Georgia; only Georgian to serve as the president of the US; helped to draft the Camp David Accords; praised for his diplomatic and charitable work after his presidency.
A legal proceeding involving a person or business that is unable to repay outstanding debts.
What is bankruptcy?
The first African American Congressman in 1972 which started his political career.
Who is Andrew Jackson Young?
Long term impacts of the Olympics. (name 2)
What are expanding over 60,000 hotel rooms, world renown convention and sports center, population growth, generated 5.1 billion dollars for the city and state.
The industry that has gown significantly in the last ten years, with their direct spending growing from 67.7 million in 2007 to 2.7 billion in 2017.
What is film industry in Georgia?
Supports more than 352,000 jobs and about 18.5 billion in personal income each year.
What is the Georgia Ports Authority?