GEORGIA -- The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Georgia posted the fifth-highest state total in foreclosures last month. This news follows last week’s Associated Press report that Georgia had the third-highest poverty rate in the nation- up two spots from the previous year and behind only the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.
“We’re in a much worse place now then we were when the Republicans took over a decade ago,” said State Senator Lester Jackson (D-Savannah). “We’ve slipped measurably since Deal took office.”
Along with promising to kick-start the economy, then-candidate Deal made job creation a central part of his campaign. Yet the Atlanta Business Chronicle also reported that Georgia was nearly the last in the nation in creating jobs in July.
“With exploding poverty and near-record unemployment, it’s clear that the Republican plan for Georgia isn’t working,” stated Page Gleason, Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Georgia. “It’s been a disaster.”
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