By Kathryn Lawler, executive director, Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI) Eating right, exercising, maintaining social connections, avoiding smoking and illegal substances and practicing safer sex. We have all heard this advice before. But for many Atlantans this advice rings hollow. Many in our community don’t have the option to choose healthy food. There […]
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Hunger Impacts Georgia Businesses: Have You Asked Your Employees?
By Debra Kibbe, senior research associate, Georgia Health Policy Center The United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.” In Georgia, more than one in five children (21percent) live in food insecure households. The national average is 18 percent. About one in […]
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Collective Impact as Means to Create Change: A Cautionary Tale
By Glenn Landers Director, Health Systems, Georgia Health Policy Center Cutting poverty. Improving high school graduation rates. Reducing health disparities. Progress towards these ambitious goals can be slow, as the work towards achieving large-scale social impact is complex. Seven years ago, the publication of John Kania and Mark Kramer’s influential paper defining “collective impact,” the […]
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The Rise in Single Family Rental Homes in the Sunbelt Metropolis has Implications for Fair Housing
By Dan Immergluck In the wake of the U.S. foreclosure crisis, there has been a large increase – on the order of 50 percent – in single-family rental homes, or SFRs, across the country. As millions of families lost their homes to foreclosure, many of those homes were eventually purchased by investors – small and […]
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Building on Communities’ Strengths to Achieve Better Health and Well-Being in Rural Georgia
By Tanisa Foxworth Adimu About 60 million people living in the United States live in rural communities, with nearly 1.8 million living in rural Georgia, according to the 2010 census. Rural America is not monolithic and includes a wide variety of locales, from densely populated small towns to neighborhoods on the border of urban areas […]
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Georgia Charter School Students Are More Likely To Graduate High School, Enroll and Persist In College, Study Finds
Attending a Georgia start-up charter high school increases the likelihood of graduation, and those students are more likely to enroll and persist in college, according to a recent study by Georgia State University’s Center for State and Local Finance. Researchers Peter Bluestone and Nicholas Warner used Georgia’s Academic and Workforce Analysis and Research Data System, or GA AWARDS, information to analyze whether […]
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Assessing the Jobs and Skills Mismatch in Georgia
By Peter Bluestone There is a growing concern among some employers in Georgia that there is a mismatch in the skills and credentials required for employment and those job seekers possess. The belief is that there is an undersupply of students who obtain degrees or certificates that confer skills and competencies that are in demand […]
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The Money Follows the Person Program Aids Quality of Life for Georgians With Disabilities
By Kristi Fuller, Georgia Health Policy Center As a single mother of two young girls, Michelle found herself in a nursing facility after suffering from a brain-stem stroke which led to loss of speech and quadriplegia. “No one belongs in a nursing facility,” Michelle* said, “especially not at 34 years old. These are good people […]
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Welfare Reform Needs Reforming to Move Georgia Families Out of Poverty
By Fred Brooks In 1996, the federal government radically reformed welfare, including cash aid now called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), with the goals of reducing poverty and “helping needy families achieve self-sufficiency.” Reform policies are one thing, but actual change is another. In 2016, I conducted a study in Georgia with a sample […]
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How Georgia is Improving Affordable Housing as a Platform for Health
By Jimmy Dills, Georgia Health Policy Center Access to quality, affordable housing is critical for supporting good health. For individuals and families with tight budgets, high housing costs can lead to tough choices between making rent and going to the doctor, between keeping the lights on and buying healthy food, or even between being part […]
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Leveraging Data To Improve the Lives Of Georgians With Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia
By Angie Snyder and Jane Branscomb, Georgia Health Policy Center Georgia is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of individuals with sickle cell disease, with more than 7,000 individuals living with the disease in almost every county in Georgia. While treatments have improved over the years and new ones are emerging from drug […]
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Researchers Investigate How New City Incorporations Raise Residential Values and Property Taxes
By Carlianne Patrick, Assistant Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies If efforts to create the proposed City of Eagle’s Landing in Henry County are successful, metro Atlanta will see its 11th new municipal incorporation since 2005. More than 200 new municipal governments have been incorporated in metropolitan counties across the U.S. since […]
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Restorative Justice: Continuing Georgia’s Juvenile Justice Revolution
By Alan Mackie and Elizabeth Beck In a nation with the highest incarceration rate in the world, it is heartening to observe Georgia bucking the trend. Much of the credit for this should be given to Gov. Nathan Deal who commissioned the Special Council for Criminal Justice Reform in Georgia shortly after taking office in […]
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Georgia Avoided Fiscal Maneuvers to Close State Budget Gap, But Needs Improvement in Planning, New Study Shows
Georgia’s government, unlike others around the country, has succeeded in avoiding one-time fiscal maneuvers to close gaps in its state budget without moving special funds into general funds to pay for current expenditures. But as found in a new study conducted by the Volcker Alliance in partnership with the Center for State and Local Finance […]
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A State of Good Repair: How Infrastructure Maintenance Reduces Inequality and Spurs Economic Growth
By John Gibson and Felix Rioja Policymakers on both sides of the political divide are considering expanding infrastructure-related spending. However, the exact dollar amount needed and where best to target these funds is still a subject of debate. While new projects clearly garner more attention from the press, maintenance in the form of fixing roads […]
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Preparing the Peach State’s Future: The Georgia Center for Education Policy
A new Georgia Center for Education Policy at Georgia State University will help state education and policy leaders harness the power of research to improve the lives of students, from classrooms to careers. Using a $3.9 million grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the center in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies […]
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Charter Schools: Changing Property Values in Georgia Communities
Georgia State University researchers are finding that charter schools are having an impact on property values around their communities, potentially providing increased tax revenues for local communities. Researchers dug through a vast amount of data from 2004 to 2013, covering 15 school districts and 52 start-up charter schools in Georgia. They evaluated how home sales […]
