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Georgia sets new employment, labor force records

Georgia’s employment and labor force numbers reached an all-time high in May, according to the state’s labor department.
WALB on MSN

Georgia launches work-based learning diploma pathway

Georgia is launching a work-based learning diploma pathway that combines classroom learning with paid work experience to help ...
Alaska Public Media

Do 'work requirements' in Medicaid work? Georgia's been trying it for two years.

Now that Republicans' big tax-and-spending bill has become law, there will be new bureaucratic hurdles for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid. The new law contains a provision that in most ...
MM&M

Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as healthcare, GAO says

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Most ...
The Nation

Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements

Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 people would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 have. In 2023, when Georgia ...
CNN

Georgia is now the only state with work requirements in Medicaid

Georgia is now the only state in the US to implement work requirements in its Medicaid program – a feat many Republican lawmakers nationwide will be closely monitoring. But unlike GOP-led states’ ...
The New York Times

A Georgia Work Program Previews How Trump Could Reshape Medicaid

The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.
MM&M

Georgia’s work requirement slows processing of applications for Medicaid, food stamps

Deegant Adhvaryu completed his parents’ applications for Medicaid and food benefits in June. Then the waiting and frustration began. In July, his parents, Haresh and Nina Adhvaryu, received a letter ...
The Business Journals

Georgia clocks 5 million jobs for first time even as federal, state government positions decline

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Georgia added 1,500 local ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Work requirement for Medicaid snarls Georgians’ benefits, like food stamps

Deegant Adhvaryu completed his parents’ applications for Medicaid and food benefits in June. Then the waiting and frustration began. In July, his parents, Haresh and Nina Adhvaryu, received a letter ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Do 'work requirements' in Medicaid work? Georgia's been trying it for two years

Most states will have to establish work requirements for Medicaid by 2027. Georgia has had them for two years. Some Georgians say the glitchy... Do 'work requirements' in Medicaid work? Georgia's been ...
Medical Xpress

Georgia's work requirement slows processing of applications for Medicaid, food stamps

For years, Georgia's public benefits system has been plagued by problem—a glitchy website that's often down for maintenance, a shortage of staff to process applications, and technology that ...