GBPI In The News Georgia colleges need more state support, studies say August 25, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin Two organizations have issued new reports reaching the same conclusion: The state of Georgia is not doing enough financially to help students graduate from its colleges. The Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a report Wednesday that shows Georgia had the fourth-highest tuition increase of any state since 2008, nearly 75 percent. Read the full article […] Read more »
GBPI In The News Opinion: Ga. should move past wait-and-see on Medicaid expansion August 6, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin In 2013, Georgia leaders had the chance to prepare to accept $3 billion in federal money to expand Medicaid at the state’s first opportunity the next year. Instead they decided to wait and see if 2014 national elections would undercut the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act survived 2014 intact, so state leaders decided […] Read more » Affordable Care Act Laura Harker Medicaid Expansion
GBPI In The News In some states, sales tax holidays lose luster August 4, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin Consumers in 16 states can take advantage of sales tax holidays this year — going on frenzied shopping sprees to buy items such as backpacks, computers and school clothes tax-free. But states confronting budget woes and a long list of spending priorities are questioning whether the hyped-up shopping events are worth the cost. Read the […] Read more » Budget State Taxes Wesley Tharpe
GBPI In The News Health care ideas, questions multiply at state and federal levels July 31, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The roller coaster of uncertainty over federal health care legislation may have halted, at least for now. Last week’s defeat of Senate health legislation, though, has led to another round of instability, expected to rattle the health care industry over the next few months. While Republicans’ efforts to scrap the Affordable Care Act have failed, […] Read more » food stamps SNAP
GBPI In The News The GOP debate over a minimum wage for cops and deputies July 22, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin According to a study based on census data, recently highlighted by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, some 3,200 members of this state’s law enforcement community — bailiffs, prison guards, jailers, beat cops and deputy sheriffs — are food stamp recipients. “That’s probably correct,” said Terry Norris, executive director of the Georgia Sheriff’s Association. Read the full article […] Read more » Minimum Wage Safety Net SNAP
GBPI In The News Crippling Medicaid cuts could upend rural health services July 10, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin Each day as Ginger Peebles watches daughter Brenlee grow, she sees the importance of having a hospital close by that delivers babies. Brenlee’s birth was touch-and-go after Peebles realized something was wrong. “I couldn’t feel the baby move, and my blood pressure was sky-high,” said Peebles, a nurse. Dr. Roslyn Banks-Jackson, then an OB-GYN specialist at […] Read more » Affordable Care Act medicaid Rural hospitals
GBPI In The News Medicaid recipients with disabilities face funding cuts under GOP bills June 26, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The potential cuts in the Medicaid program, as outlined in the GOP health care bills, have a deeply felt meaning for Mitzi Proffitt and her family. Read the full story at Georgia Health News. Read more » Federal Health 2017 health Laura Harker medicaid
GBPI In The News Senate health insurance plan would cost Georgians June 23, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The U.S. Senate has unveiled its much-anticipated legislation to unravel the Affordable Care Act, releasing a proposal Thursday that has some key differences from the House health care overhaul. Like the House bill, the Senate version — crafted in secrecy by 13 Republican senators — would slash Medicaid, which covers millions of Americans (including roughly […] Read more » Federal Health 2017 health Laura Harker medicaid
GBPI In The News New health care proposal would have big impact on Georgia June 22, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin Georgians, like the rest of the nation, finally came face to face with the U.S. Senate’s long-hidden health care proposal Thursday. And one way or another, they said, its impact on the state could be profound. Liberals decried its potential impact on women’s health and care for the poor. After a quick look at the […] Read more » Federal Health 2017 health Laura Harker medicaid
GBPI In The News Georgia children’s hospitals vulnerable to health-care reform bill June 22, 2017 / January 14, 2020 by GBPI Admin The health-care reform bill congressional Republicans passed last month particularly threatens children’s hospitals in Georgia, according to a new study. Read the full article at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read more » Federal Health 2017 health medicaid
