The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves about 1.6 million Georgians on average every month, and more than half are adults. While most adults who receive food assistance work, some SNAP recipients are more likely to be unemployed than their
Human Services Budget Overview Georgia’s Department of Human Services oversees state spending to protect children and the elderly as well as provide non-medical assistance to people with low incomes. State funding for the agency is $797 million in 2019, about
Georgia officials are considering a plan for child care assistance that proposes improvements that can help families, but still doesn’t include enough money to fulfill its promise. This week, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute submitted comments on Georgia’s Child
Millions of moms graduate from college every year. Women-owned Georgia businesses generate millions of dollars in revenue and create thousands of living wage jobs. Affordable child care for all working mothers. Women earn equal pay for equal work. All women
Lawmakers in Congress and the Trump administration are staging a multi-prong assault on the nation’s primary tool for helping families keep enough food on the table, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While SNAP recipients depend on food assistance for
Congress is poised to put the nutritional health and economic vitality of hundreds of thousands of Georgians at risk as it prepares to reauthorize the federal Farm Bill and its wide range of agricultural and rural development programs. Top threats
The White House proposed a 2019 budget last month that makes steep cuts to one of the strongest lines of defense this country uses to fight hunger: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The proposal calls for slashing food assistance,
You don’t have to look far to see the impact of Georgia’s hospital crisis. Five rural medical centers have closed since 2013 and nearly two thirds of the rest were in the red in 2014. Read more.
State legislators are likely to consider large-scale changes to Georgia’s tax system when they return to work in January 2016, and some ideas they’re poised to debate threaten serious harm to Georgia families and the state’s ability to maintain a
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GBPI is committed to tracking how the state of Georgia raises and spends fiscal resources. As the federal government has promised and provided some of these, cuts to programs and funding on the federal level could have deep and lasting impacts on Georgians and on the state’s ability to meet the needs of all its residents.
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