December 29, 2021

Consumer Stories

Food Bank hires local group to plan $5 million project

A local charitable organization has received a $3.7 million grant that will help to feed the hungry in the CSRA. Golden Harvest Food Bank is one of eight food banks throughout Georgia that has received a Department of Community Affairs Grant, which will be administered locally by the Augusta Economic Development Authority. The grant was funded by the CARES Act – a law that was passed in response to the pandemic. Golden Harvest will use the funds to cover 75% of the construction costs for a two-story, 30,000-square-foot building on

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B2B Stories

Simon Says: Economic Resolutions!

Are you contemplating a dry January or a Veganuary? Want to exercise more and eat less? Many of us make New Year resolutions about this time of the year, only for them to fall apart before the end of January. Not sure you can make the commitment last, economics is here to help with the anti-charity! The StickK website (https://www.stickk.com) was started by Yale professors, Ian Ayers and Dean Karlan. In graduate school, Karlan had found himself putting on weight as had a fellow grad student. They set up a

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