About 24,000 Georgians in poverty live in the localities with extreme fine and fee practices. Fines and fees overreliance excessively extracts wealth from communities of color and communities with few resources.
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Georgia Health Care Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022
Georgia’s 2022 Health Care Budget
The Departments of Community Health, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and Public Health are the three primary agencies focused on the state’s health care and public health systems. Georgia plans to provide $5.6 billion in total state funds for these three agencies in the 2022 budget year, or about 20 percent of overall state spending. General Fund appropriations for these agencies account for $4.9 billion, or 87 percent of total state funds, while other sources account for about $696 million. General Fund dollars for these three agencies increased by $409 million from 2021 to 2022.
Framed as a battle to save democracy, the 2020 election and its aftermath only exposed the vulnerabilities within the U.S. political system. While millions of voters overcame the “big lie” at the national level, the focus on federal elections has overshadowed the ongoing struggle at the state level to protect democracy.
Republicans responded to historic turnout by introducing a wave of legislation restricting voting rights in states across the country. Repeatedly debunked lies about fraud and election administration continue to fuel the proposed changes to a manufactured problem.
In Georgia, where a multiracial coalition sent shock waves through the political world, Republicans introduced several dozen bills aimed at limiting the turnout seen in the general and runoff elections. Advocates have recently honed in on two bills, calling them the worst voting legislation since the Jim Crow era. Georgia Senate Bill 241 would end no-excuse absentee ballots and add witnessing and ID re