A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation says more than half of Georgia families with young children lack economic stability and that parents in half of those families can’t find stable jobs.

The report, Creating Opportunity for Families: A Two-Generation Approach, is available at www.aecf.org. It says more than half of the unstable families are headed by a single parent and that a lack of education is a major problem. It recommends financial and health coaching, broader access to early childhood education, tax credits and other measures to ease the burden of parenting.

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Wade Roberts (center), a Decatur-area resident with children in three of the city's schools, speaks as Decatur parents met with Education Planners, a consulting firm, on Nov. 13, at Beacon Hill Middle School in Decatur to discuss the possibility of one of the district's five K-2 schools closing. (Daniel Varnado for the AJC)

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