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  2. Atlanta Empowerment Zone - Wikipedia

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    The Atlanta Empowerment Zone was established in November 1994 as a 10-year, $250 million federal program to revitalize Atlanta's 34 poorest neighborhoods. Scathing reports from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs revealed corruption, waste, bureaucratic incompetence, and ...

  3. Empowerment zone - Wikipedia

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    Empowerment zone. Within United States federal legislation, an empowerment zone is an economically distressed community eligible to receive tax incentives and grants from the United States federal government under the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Act of 1993. [1]

  4. English Avenue and Vine City - Wikipedia

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    In November 1994, the Atlanta Empowerment Zone was established, a 10-year, $250 million federal program to revitalize Atlanta's 34 poorest neighborhoods including the Bluff. Scathing reports from both the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs revealed corruption, waste, bureaucratic ...

  5. Georgia voting maps discriminate against Black voters, judge ...

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    Maps drawing the boundaries for congressional and state legislative districts in Georgia violate the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn, a federal judge has ruled.. The 516-page order from US ...

  6. Oconee County, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Oconee County, Georgia. /  33.84°N 83.44°W  / 33.84; -83.44. Oconee County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,799. [1] The county seat is Watkinsville. [2] Oconee County is included in the Athens-Clarke County, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area .

  7. In GOP's proposed Georgia congressional map, a key ... - AOL

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    The question was a key part of debate Monday as a Senate committee voted 7-4 along party lines to advance the proposed congressional map. It could be debated Tuesday before the full state Senate.

  8. Georgia's new congressional map creates a new minority ... - AOL

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    Georgia’s Republican-controlled Legislature gave final passage to a new congressional redistricting plan on Thursday, approving a map that dismantles a minority-majority district to create a new ...

  9. Renewal community - Wikipedia

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    Renewal community. Renewal Communities (RCs) and Empowerment Zones (EZs) are distressed urban and rural communities in the United States where qualifying businesses are eligible for billions of dollars in tax incentives. They were created in the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000, which was eventually passed as part of the Consolidated ...