The 2024 Georgia General Assembly Senate Study Committees are in session starting this week. Like bills, study committees are proposed during the legislative session but as resolutions the sponsor believes need further examining during the off-season. This year's study committees will analyze several topics, including firearm safety, artificial intelligence, affordable child care, and more.
The landscape at the Georgia Capitol is changing as more women have been elected to the Legislature and as the work of caregiving is increasingly shared among spouses.
Georgia candidates can now use campaign money they raise for child care. The funds can also cover care for people who have elderly parents or disabled dependents.
January is the first month since July 2021 that more than 36 million families in the U.S. did not receive money from the expanded child tax credit program. For some, the consequences are already dire.
Another cog in the supply chain disrupted by the pandemic: diapers. And as struggling families with young children face more challenges to making ends...