Letter Urges Congress to Make Child Tax Credit Permanent - Georgia Budget and Policy Institute gbpi.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gbpi.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
July 16, 2021
Esther Schrader
Their jobs at the trampoline park earned Constance and Jermaine Summers just enough to get by.
Working for $12 an hour, the couple could squeeze out enough money to continue renting their tiny mobile home in an Atlanta suburb, along with monthly payments on the eight-year-old car they drove with care. Their children, ages 12 and 13, had friends and space to play in the mobile home community where they lived. When tips came their way, the couple could buy the occasional treat for their kids.
But since last March, the family has lost almost everything.
As the pandemic raged, the trampoline park went dark and they were laid off. At first, they got unemployment benefits. Then, with no explanation, their unemployment payments stopped coming. The family was evicted. Because the one-bedroom efficiency apartment they moved into does not accept pets, they had to give their beloved family dog to a local fire station.
Georgia tax revenue leaps more than $3B over last year - Statesboro Herald statesboroherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from statesboroherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Georgia tax revenue leaps more than $3B over last year
By Jeff Amy
ATLANTA - Georgia’s state tax receipts jumped by more than $3 billion in the budget year ended June 30, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday, setting up an election-year session in which lawmakers will have many options for new spending or tax cuts.
Georgia collected $26.9 billion in revenue, up 13.5% from $23.7 billion in the 2020 budget year. Lawmakers had cut spending sharply before the 2021 budget year began, fearing revenue would plunge because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s been clear for months that tax receipts were soaring instead.
Kemp and other Republicans have credited the increase to Kemp’s decision to lift coronavirus restrictions early, although Democrats have said Georgia’s good fortune has more to do with the trillions Congress handed out to businesses and individuals to keep them afloat during the pandemic.
Atlanta, May 13, 2021 Georgia is cutting off federal unemployment programs that provide a $300-a-week boost to people on the jobless rolls, as well as programs that pay federal money to people not usually eligible for state unemployment or who have been on jobless aid for longer than the state provides, a move that […]