International trade and investment support more than a half-million jobs in Georgia, and the state is the 12th-largest exporter in the United States. Unlike many other states, nearly half of Georgian jobs supported by trade are due to foreign direct investment (FDI). The key export industries in Georgia are aerospace and spacecraft, as well as transportation services. The providers of these exports rely on access to intermediate goods from around the world to remain competitive, and more than 60 percent of Georgia’s imports from Canada and Mexico in 2016 were intermediate goods.
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution late Thursday night recognizing the work of Capitol personnel on January 6, calling the incident an "insurrection."
The New York Times is making hay during the intense Democratic politicization of the one-year anniversary of the violent Capitol Hill riots of January 6, 2021, what an online headline called “the worst American attack in democracy in centuries.” (How many centuries are we talking about here?)