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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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