25-33%: Increase in domestic violence cases globally in 2020
$5 million: Amount requested from the Georgia budget office to help victims’ services programs and shelters.
$5.9 million: Incoming cash Georgia domestic violence shelters lost from March 2020 to October 2021
$5.8 million: New operating costs domestic violence shelters saw from March 2020 to October 2021
(Source: Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, and the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.)
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