Blog Budget and Taxes Dominique Derbigny Sims Economic Justice Education Health Justice People Powered Prosperity Looking Ahead: The End of People-Powered Prosperity and What’s Next August 8, 2023 / September 5, 2023 by Dominique Derbigny Sims | 1 Comment on Looking Ahead: The End of People-Powered Prosperity and What’s Next In 2018, GBPI launched People-Powered Prosperity (PPP), an economic vision and policy agenda for Georgia focused on leveraging the state’s most powerful economic asset—its people. PPP detailed a plan for how state leaders could pursue strategies to help all Georgians thrive and pay for the plan responsibly. To bolster GBPI’s research and advocacy by activating […] Read more » Advocacy Campaign Economic Asset Economic Security Economic Vision Educated Youth equity Georgia Georgia policy Healthy Communities People-Powered Prosperity Policy Agenda policy priorities PPP Progress Prosperity Strong Workforce Tax System Thriving Families
Blog Dominique Derbigny Sims Economic Justice Surviving not Thriving: Post-Pandemic Economic Security for Black Women and Latinas in Georgia May 11, 2023 / May 12, 2023 by Dominique Derbigny Sims In 2021, GBPI reflected on the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic security for Black women and Latinas. On May 11, the national public health emergency, which was declared more than three years ago, officially expires. During the pandemic, Georgians benefited from federal expansions to health care access via Medicaid, expansions to Unemployment […] Read more » American Rescue Plan Black women COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic Economic Security expansions to health care access federal student loan debts Latinas medicaid mortgages relief packages Revenue Shortfall Reserve U.S. public health emergency Unemployment Insurance
Blog Dominique Derbigny Sims Health Justice Worker Justice Georgia’s Abortion Ban Threatens Violence and Economic Insecurity for Black Women August 23, 2022 / April 25, 2023 by Dominique Derbigny Sims Georgia’s history is fraught with violence against Black women. Deriving from the painful origins of slavery, where Black women were forced into pregnancy and childbirth by their enslavers, we find ourselves in an eerily familiar landscape where women are denied the autonomy to choose whether or when to birth babies. In 2019, Georgia lawmakers passed […] Read more » COVID-19 Economic Security racial equity women
Blog Dominique Derbigny Sims Worker Justice Unequal Recovery: How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Impacted Economic Security for Black Women and Latinas November 18, 2021 / April 25, 2023 by Dominique Derbigny Sims | 1 Comment on Unequal Recovery: How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Impacted Economic Security for Black Women and Latinas Nearly two years into a global public health crisis, most people are experiencing some degree of pandemic burnout, but COVID-19 and its ensuing economic effects have not impacted everyone equally. People who were systematically marginalized before the pandemic are bearing the brunt of its devastation, especially women of color with low incomes. Although Black women […] Read more » COVID-19 Economic Security racial equity women
