K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Hidden Costs Exact a Toll: Results from GBPI’s 2022 School District Survey September 20, 2022 / September 20, 2022 by Stephen Owens This report was co-authored by Monica Obregon, a fellow in the Southern Education Leadership Initiative, a program within the Southern Education Foundation Every year, the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute (GBPI) distributes a survey to each superintendent in the state to collect information on the effects of education funding on individual school districts, what improvements need […] Read more » Education K-12 poverty
Alex Camardelle Bill Analysis Cash and Safety Net People Powered Prosperity Modernizing Cash Aid for Thousands of Georgia Children in Deep Poverty | Bill Analysis: HB 91 (LC 33 8469) February 10, 2021 / February 10, 2021 by Alex Camardelle Introduction The only program in Georgia that is available to provide direct cash assistance to children in deep poverty—Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)—does little to reach families with the greatest needs. For those it can reach, it provides insufficient income support. In 1996, 254,000 children and families received direct cash aid, while today only […] Read more » cash assistance poverty TANF
Blog Claire Suggs K-12 Education Poverty Leaves a Mark on Albany Area Schools December 20, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by Claire Suggs | 1 Comment on Poverty Leaves a Mark on Albany Area Schools The teachers at Alice Coachman Elementary School in Dougherty County are quick to tell you the students are smart. They may lack foundational skills but not intelligence. The declaration captures the promise of so many children in poverty and the challenges they confront, as well as the schools they attend. I visited the school as […] Read more » child-poverty Dougherty County Education Georgia Department of Education K-12 poverty
Claire Suggs K-12 Education Reports Tackle Poverty’s Effects to Improve School Performance December 4, 2017 / March 18, 2021 by Claire Suggs | 1 Comment on Tackle Poverty’s Effects to Improve School Performance Seventy percent of Georgia school district leaders say poverty is the most significant out-of-school issue that limits student learning. That key finding in a new Georgia Budget and Policy Institute survey reinforces an analysis of the grades issued to schools in 2016 that reveals a tight connection between whether a school sits in a high-poverty […] Read more » Claire Suggs Education K-12 poverty schools teachers
Budget and Taxes Wesley Tharpe Tax Credits Help Lead the Fight Against Poverty September 25, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by Wesley Tharpe When Georgians think about the best ways to fight poverty and help more families climb the economic ladder, tax credits probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. But new data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau confirm that the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) are […] Read more » EITC Federal Budget & Taxes poverty State Taxes
GBPI In The News On Second Thought July 22, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by GBPI Admin Celeste Headlee talks to a panel about what can change to make lives for working moms in Georgia better: Melissa Johnson of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Lisa Anderson from Atlanta Women for Equality and Atlanta mom blogger Heather Henry. Read more. Read more » Melissa Johnson poverty women
GBPI In The News Ga. women-owned business statistics not all good news May 28, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by GBPI Admin Gov. Nathan Deal recently tweeted a headline that read “Georgia sees fastest growth in number of women-owned firms since 1997.” That may be true, but it’s not the whole picture Read more. Read more » Melissa Johnson poverty women
Blog Growing Inequality Threatens Georgia’s Economy December 19, 2012 / January 17, 2020 by Wesley Tharpe Posted by Wesley Tharpe We often hear about the social and cultural differences that divide Georgians of different backgrounds –but what about the economic differences that divide Georgia too? The state’s gap between the haves and have-nots has never been greater, and unless reversed, it will continue to undermine opportunity and economic growth. Georgia has […] Read more » Economic Security Education medicaid poverty Safety Net Wesley Tharpe
Cash and Safety Net Clare S. Richie The 5th poorest state needs to step up November 15, 2012 / January 17, 2020 by Clare Richie | 2 Comments on The 5th poorest state needs to step up Posted by Clare S. Richie Nearly one in five Georgians — and one out of four children — lives in poverty. That’s a lot: in only four other states is the poverty rate higher. We’re talking about an income of $22,350 for a family of four. That’s less than half of what it takes for […] Read more » Economic Security poverty Safety Net
Fact Sheets Georgia Poverty Still on the Rise, With Children Hit Hardest November 15, 2012 / January 17, 2020 by Clare Richie | 1 Comment on Georgia Poverty Still on the Rise, With Children Hit Hardest Nearly one in five Georgians, and one out of four children, live in poverty, according to 2011 U.S. Census data, making Georgia the fifth-poorest state in the nation. Since the recession hit, Georgia’s overall poverty rate has increased by approximately five percentage points and the child poverty rate has risen by nearly seven percentage points. […] Read more » Clare Richie poverty
