Blog Health Justice Laura Harker Charlton Ranks Among Georgia Counties With Dire Health Provider Shortages July 1, 2016 / January 15, 2020 by Laura Harker Nearly two-thirds of Georgia’s counties fall below the statewide average number of nurses, physician assistants, total doctors and primary care doctors per 100,000 residents. In many rural counties, shortages reflect financial ills in local health care systems, even hospital closures. Community health care cornerstones like Charlton Memorial Hospital closed across the state in recent years. […] Read more » medicaid Rural hospitals
Blog Health Justice Taifa Smith Butler Time to Remedy Georgia’s Health Care Provider Shortages June 30, 2016 / January 15, 2020 by Taifa Smith Butler As published in the AJC June 26, 2016 Georgia needs a health care system that is sustainable. The state needs to focus on promising solutions to its health care crisis and not waste time gazing in the rear view mirror at missed opportunities. When a hospital closes, as one in Ellijay did this month, it […] Read more » medicaid Rural hospitals
Blog Cash and Safety Net Jennifer Owens K-12 Education Better Investments Needed to Close Georgia’s Child Hunger Gap June 24, 2016 / January 16, 2020 by Jennifer Owens | 1 Comment on Better Investments Needed to Close Georgia’s Child Hunger Gap When the final bells ring and students pour out of schools for the summer, some set their sights on beach trips, lazy days playing in backyard sprinklers and summer camps with friends. But for hundreds of thousands of Georgia schoolchildren, figuring out where their next meal will come from is top of mind. Nearly 879,000 […] Read more » Nutrition School Lunch
Health Justice Reports Timothy Sweeney Prescribing Remedies for Georgia’s Medical Provider Shortage June 16, 2016 / February 26, 2021 by Timothy Sweeney Local access to health professionals varies widely across Georgia, from relative availability in populous Fulton County to the daunting challenge found in many rural communities. State trends mask the nuanced differences among Georgia’s regions. Evidence indicates nearly two-thirds of Georgia’s counties fall below the statewide average number for each professional category of nurses, physician assistants, […] Read more » medicaid Medicaid Expansion Rural hospitals
Blog Featured Health Justice Laura Harker Several remedies show promise for Georgia’s health care provider shortage June 16, 2016 / February 26, 2021 by Laura Harker Last week, the North Georgia Medical Center in Ellijay, Georgia closed and left yet another county with a shortage of hospital beds. In light of this and other recent hospital closures, a newly released report from GBPI outlines potential solutions to Georgia’s ongoing struggle with lack of doctors, nurses and health staff to meet the […] Read more » medicaid Rural hospitals
Blog Claire Suggs K-12 Education Aiming for Average in Education Spending June 14, 2016 / January 16, 2020 by Claire Suggs Georgia ranks 38th among states for public school spending. Spending per student in Georgia is $1,807 less than the national average, according to new census data. Factor in geographic cost differences and that disparity rises to $2,553. Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission could have outlined a plan to close this gap and boost investment […] Read more » education-reform-commission K-12
Blog Budget and Taxes Taifa Smith Butler State Revenue Gain Offers Possibilities June 10, 2016 / January 16, 2020 by Taifa Smith Butler As we near the close of the 2016 fiscal year, we can breathe a sigh of relief. The bad days of the Great Recession are distant in the rear view mirror as revenue growth remained strong all year long. Georgia collected 9.9 percent more through the first 11 months of the current fiscal year than […] Read more » State Budget State Taxes
Blog Featured Wesley Tharpe Worker Justice New Overtime Rules a Win for Georgia’s Middle Class May 20, 2016 / January 16, 2020 by Wesley Tharpe As many as half a million Georgia workers stand to gain from a long-overdue update to the nation’s system for overtime pay announced by the U.S. Department of Labor this week. The new benchmark nearly doubles the annual pay salaried workers can earn and still be eligible for overtime pay, extending new protections to millions […] Read more »
Blog Budget and Taxes Featured Timothy Sweeney More Needed for Schools, Health Care After $23.7B Budget Kicks in July 1 May 10, 2016 / January 16, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Gov. Nathan Deal just signed the state’s budget for the 2017 fiscal year that kicks in this July and once again we heard that the $23.7 billion spending plan represents a “record budget.” While the recently signed budget promises to move the state forward in many ways, it is important to remember that Georgia is […] Read more » FY2017 State Budget
Budget and Taxes Reports Wesley Tharpe Lawmakers Reject Major Tax Cuts, OK Modest Tax Breaks May 4, 2016 / January 17, 2020 by Wesley Tharpe Adding Up the Fiscal Notes: 2016 Legislative Session Recap Each year, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute examines all tax bills considered by the state Legislature and tallies potential lost revenue as part of our two-part Adding Up the Fiscal Notes series. This report’s analysis reflects the costs of tax bills signed into law by […] Read more » State Taxes
