January 15, 2008
“Strengthening the Foundation: Investments in the Adult Workforce Build a More Prosperous Georgia”
“A new study by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute concludes that the state of Georgia could improve its economic prospects by doing more to educate adults who lack high school diplomas and provide more affordable access to higher education for low-income working adults.”
“Nearly one in three working families in Georgia are low-income, earning less than 200 percent of the federal poverty threshold. These 323,840 Georgia families are hardworking, with an average work effort of 2,489 hours a year or about 1.2 full-time jobs per family. In a majority of low-income working families (57 percent), neither parent has had any post-secondary education. A full 30 percent of low-income working families have at least one parent who did not complete high school.”
To read the full study, issued in January, click here.
