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Here are some interesting facts in Georgia: In FY 2005

• TANF benefits totaled more than $117 million. A monthly average of 99,730 Georgians received TANF, totaling over 37,000 cases. Of these, 66 percent were children; the others were their adult caregivers.

• An average of 32,226 TANF recipients received employment services every month.

• There were approximately 602,278 receiving Medicaid.

· Health Insurance Coverage of Non-elderly Medicaid Enrollees by Race/Ethnicity, states (2003-2004), U.S. (2004)= 120,410

· Health Insurance Coverage of Non-elderly Uninsured by Race/Ethnicity, states (2003-2004), U.S. (2004)= 228,040

· Which means a total of 348,040 of Hispanics during 2004 received Medicaid, this number has grown considering the Hispanic population grew in the past decade by 300%

• Food stamp benefits worth over $1 billion were issued. About 908,073 low-income people received food stamps monthly.

· As of December 2005, the participation rate was 69.26% of Hispanics

• 70,466 children were in subsidized childcare each month, at a cost of over $19 million per month. Subsidized childcare allows low-income families to pay for day care on a sliding fee scale so they can work or train for employment.

· In the past ten years, the birth rate among girls in Georgia 15 to 19 years old declined 25 percent – from 70.6 births per 1,000 girls in 1994 to 53.3 in 2004. During the same time period, the teen birth rate for non-Hispanic whites declined 26%. The decline in the teen birth rate among non-Hispanic African-Americans was even steeper, going down 39%. Both the number and rate of teen births have increased for Hispanics; exact amounts are unknown due to lack of data on the growth of this population.

• Twenty community action agencies and four local governments received about $17 million in federal funds to provide job skills training, transportation, housing and food.

• The Energy Assistance Program distributed $19 million to 103,883 low-income households to help pay their home heating costs.

source: 1: http://dhr.georgia.gov/

2: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/