Ga. Senate tone deaf on poverty
A recent proposal in the State Senate to address poverty shows a stunning ignorance (or indifference) to the lives of low-income Georgians. Sometimes I wonder exactly what policy makers think of poor folks, because their policy proposals don’t show a lot of knowledge about realities of living in poverty. More than one in six Georgians live in poverty, many more don’t meet the federally defined threshold, but still find themselves struggling to pay for life’s