“The pandemic was like a gut punch, in which what would have happened in a typical recession, in a year or year-plus, happened in two months,” says Rajeev Dhawan, who leads the economic forecasting center in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
After a year of restrictions, shelter-in-place orders and pandemic-related economic uncertainty, it looks like Atlanta’s economy is coming back to life.
From wedding gifts to vacation reservations, we’re looking to spend money this summer on anything that makes up for the one we missed last year.
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