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#1. This past September, roughly 170 Atlanta Public School ___________ were recognized for their stewardship with one-time $1,000 bonus, courtesy of the Biden administration’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund.
It’s Custodians.
Though school custodians were supposed to get their bonus as part of state employee pay raises that Gov. Brian Kemp announced last May, custodians were not eligible in the state funding formula.
#2. The Fulton County Commission has rejected a resolution to allocate money to ____________, Georgia’s only abortion fund.
It’s Access Reproductive Care Southeast.
The group provides assistance with abortion-related expenses, including the cost of travel.
The measure sponsored by Commissioner Dana Barrett would have enabled Fulton County to donate $300,000 to the nonprofit.
#3. The Northside Hospital system has recently introduced a program of parent-infant psychotherapy to help care for which aspect of health for Georgia mothers?
It’s Mental Health.
In Georgia, mental health conditions are the second-leading cause of pregnancy-related death.
Northside has a massive footprint in Georgia, with five acute-care hospitals and nearly 300 outpatient facilities spread across 25 counties and serving over 5 million patients annually.
#4. History was made Tuesday as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of his job of House Speaker in a 216-210 vote, with __________ members of Georgia’s congressional delegation voting to oust McCarthy.
It’s Five.
Georgia’s congressional delegation voted along party lines on the measure, with the state’s nine Republicans voting against and five Democrats voting for McCarthy’s ouster as speaker.
#5. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, there were a total of 243 in-custody deaths in prisons last year, which is over 50 more than the _________ in-custody deaths that were reported between January and July of this year.
It’s 155.
The Prison Policy Initiative has long said the state of Georgia has an incarceration rate of 968 per 100,000, including prisons, jails, immigration detention and juvenile justice facilities, meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than any democracy on earth.
