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August 31, 2023 / Civic Engagement

Low- and high-income Americans come together in public parks, libraries, and… Olive GardenImage

In a recent study, Maxim Massenhoff and Nathan Wilmers of the Naval Postgraduate School and Harvard University used SafeGraph mobile location data to determine where Americans of different classes are more likely to meet. In general, Americans are pretty isolated. Their study shows that:

Americans are even less likely to mix with people from different socio-economic classes than pre-pandemic.
We’re working remotely and shopping online more, and venturing outside of our own neighborhoods less.
New research shows affordable chain restaurants (like Olive Garden and Applebee’s) are the exception.

In 24% of Georgia counties, at least 10% of the population speak a language other than English at homeImage

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta recently published a “Linguistic Diversity in Georgia” report detailing data and recommendations to better serve Georgia’s diverse populations.

Georgia’s linguistically diverse population is not exclusively concentrated in the state’s most populous counties.

More than 800,000 Georgians speak Spanish, making up 8 percent of Georgia’s total population.

To account for gaps in available Census data, stakeholders should look to other sources, such as school data, for more detailed data about languages spoken in a given jurisdiction.

Language access and linguistic representation is important even to those who self-report as speaking English “very well.”

August 1, 2022 / Civic Engagement, Equity

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A new WABE and GPB analyzes the impacts of the newly enacted law (SB 202) that affects the number and location of ballot boxes across the state. The finding point to disparate outcomes, including:

More than half of the roughly 550,000 voters who cast their ballot using a drop box in the state’s 2020 general election lived in four metro Atlanta counties — Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett — where about 50% of the voters are people of color.
Under the new law, the number of drop boxes in these four counties plummeted from 107 to 25.
Nearly 1.9 million people, a quarter of the state’s voters, have seen their travel time to a drop box increase from the 2020 election.
More than 90% of voters who saw an increase in their travel time to a drop box live in cities or suburbs, which are home to most of the state’s minority voters and vote heavily Democratic.

October 2, 2020 / Basic Needs, Civic Engagement, Hispanic, Immigration

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Among immigrant-serving organizations, civic engagement focuses during and beyond the pandemic include: (1) supporting the wellbeing of community leaders and volunteer-led organizations, (2) strengthening community networks for mutual aid, (3) civic education, including redistricting, (4) ensuring comprehensive and standard language access policies for all Georgia districts. (LCF)

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Low- and high-income Americans come together in public parks, libraries, and… Olive GardenImage

In 24% of Georgia counties, at least 10% of the population speak a language other than English at homeImage

Disappearing ballot drop boxes decrease voting accessibilityGallery

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