Read it yesterday - very good.
What should concern people is that Cobb County is a harbinger of what poverty in America will look like for most of this century, not an aberration.
Republicans will say, "Keep the taxes low so the jobs will come and the poor will be able to have money that way." But the low taxes mean low infrastructure investment, meaning the poor often have little to no way of getting to those jobs, and when they do, they find that the jobs don't pay enough for them to live without some form of state assistance.
Georgia and other states ought to amend their constitutions to allow for supra-county public transit districts that would serve sprawling metro areas like Atlanta. County and municipal governments could collect taxes on its behalf and remit the revenue to said transit district. No more patchwork county and city systems that don't work together.
Cobb County residents clearly can't be trusted to provide input into their own transit policy. They'd rather live amid an impoverished landscape of empty strip malls and overcrowded rental houses as long as "those people" get as little money and public service as absolutely possible.
