Of the 376,377 households 30.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them 35.7% were married couples living together 15.7% had a female householder with no husband present 44.4% were non-families and 35.4% of all households were made up of individuals the average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 3.15 the median age was 34.2 years. Thirteen Colonies A cotton field in southern Georgia However the colonists took pains to argue that they did not oppose British regulation of their external trade; they only opposed legislation which affected them internally. Atlanta Georgia business directory State taxes Health care; Atlanta Georgia business directory, The state legislature may allow municipalities to institute local sales taxes and special local taxes such as the 2% SPLOST tax and the 1% sales tax for MARTA serviced counties Excise taxes are levied on alcohol tobacco and motor fuel Owners of real property in Georgia pay property tax to their county All taxes are collected by the Georgia Department of Revenue and then properly distributed according to any agreements that each county has with its cities. . F Frank Selee** 2.4 Flora Games Taxes Amtrak has argued that it needs to increase capital program costs in 2013 in order to replace old train equipment because the multi-year maintenance costs for those trains exceeds what it would cost to simply buy new equipment that would not need to be repaired for several years However despite an initial request for more than $2.1 billion in funding for the year the company had to deal with a year-over-year cut in 2013 federal appropriations dropping to under $1.4 billion for the first time in several years Amtrak stated in 2010 that the backlog of needed repairs of the track it owns on the Northeast Corridor included over 200 bridges most dating to the 19th century tunnels under Baltimore dating to the American Civil War era and functionally obsolete track switches which would cost $5.2 billion to repair (more than triple Amtrak's total annual budget) Amtrak's budget is only allocated on a yearly basis and it has been argued by Joseph Vranich that this makes multi-year development programs and long-term fiscal planning difficult if not impossible.[page needed]. Power may be fed as direct or alternating current the most common DC voltages are 600 and 750 V for tram and rapid transit systems and 1,500 and 3,000 V for mainlines the two dominant AC systems are 15 kV AC and 25 kV AC.
. Sleek white passenger train at a station Midtown Atlanta and the Downtown Connector. Main article: History of Georgia (U.S state), 2.8 Contempt Demographics Only in inland areas below the Yangtze River and coastal areas between approximately the Huai River and the beginning of the coast of Guangdong is there sufficient winter rainfall to produce a Cfa climate; even in these areas rainfall and streamflow display a highly pronounced summer peak unlike other regions of this climate type Drought can be severe and often catastrophic to agriculture in the Cwa zone, See also: List of oldest structures in Atlanta. Fulton County was created in 1853 from the western half of DeKalb County it was named in honor of Hamilton Fulton a railroad official who acted as surveyor for the Western and Atlantic Railroad and also as chief engineer of the state After surveying the area that is now Fulton County Fulton convinced state officials that a railroad rather than a canal should be constructed to connect Milledgeville then the state capital to Chattanooga Tennessee Building the railroad was a precursor of Fulton County's prominence as a major transportation center Organized as settlement increased in the Piedmont section of upland Georgia Fulton County grew rapidly after the American Civil War as Atlanta was rebuilt becoming a center of railroad shipping industry and business.
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