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
GBPI In The News COVID-era funding largesse for health care about to end May 5, 2023 / May 19, 2023 by Anthony Hill America’s three-year experiment with an approximation of European-style universal health care will come to an end May 11 when the federal public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic expires. A series of health-care and insurance-coverage provisions that were put in place to deal with the pandemic are about to go away, which experts […] Read more » American Rescue Plan COVID-19 pandemic Economic Justice health-care worker justice