While Governor Kemp brags during his State of the State about Georgia being a great state to do business, under his failed leadership our state ranks last in just about everything else that matters for Georgians’ quality of life – from education funding to health care to housing access.
- Georgia is in the bottom 10 states for raising a family based on important metrics like housing affordability, health care, and school quality. Governor Kemp refuses to fully expand Medicaid, contributing to Georgia’s sky-high uninsured rate, and is undermining the public education system by siphoning its funding away to unaccountable private schools.
- Georgia may be friendly to big businesses, but it’s hostile to workers: Georgia is one of the worst states to work based on metrics like wages, workplace protections, and right to organize. Last year, Governor Kemp and his allies rammed through SB 362 — a direct attack on workers, organized labor, and businesses that disqualifies any business that voluntarily recognizes a labor union in their workplace from receiving state economic incentives.
- Georgia is also one of the riskiest states in which to give birth because of Kemp’s attacks on reproductive freedom and maternal health. Last year’s annual March of Dimes report card on maternal and infant health gave Georgia a failing grade, designating it among the worst states in the nation to give birth. Governor Kemp signed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country in 2019 that went into effect when Roe v. Wade fell. Georgia’s maternal mortality rate – already among the highest in the nation – has increased during Governor Kemp’s tenure, with the overwhelming majority of the deaths being preventable.
Georgia Democrats in the state legislature have outlined plans to address exactly the issues facing Georgians thanks to Kemp’s neglect – including plans to increase the affordable housing supply, restore reproductive freedom and tackle the maternal mortality crisis, and fully expand Medicaid to bring health coverage to nearly half a million Georgians.
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