More than 850,000 adults in Georgia do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent, a GED, according to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, or GBPI. Read more.
Georgia’s statewide back-to-schoolﾠsales tax holidayﾠkicked off Friday and over the course of the two-day period, state officials said, shoppers were expected to save tens of millions of dollars. Read more.
There are politically unpopular stands, and then there’s a call to end the back-to-school sales-tax holiday going on right now. Read more.
Problems with reimbursement have some doctors refusing to accept it Read more.
Celeste Headlee talks to a panel about what can change to make lives for working moms in Georgia better: Melissa Johnson of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Lisa Anderson from Atlanta Women for Equality and Atlanta mom blogger Heather
The Obama administration rolled out new statistics this week to buttress the argument that Georgia should expand its Medicaid program. Read more.
Gov. Nathan Deal recently tweeted a headline that read “Georgia sees fastest growth in number of women-owned firms since 1997.” That may be true, but it’s not the whole picture Read more.
Grady Health System realized it couldn’t count on Medicaid expansion anytime soon, so it went looking for a different path. Read more.
The new executive director of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Taifa Smith Butler discusses what the organization does, the state budget and more on ”A Closer Look.” Read more.
U.S. Sen. David Perdue had harsh words for President Obama after Obama’s visit to Georgia Tech earlier this month. The president had come to highlight the importance of education and his administration’s efforts to make college more affordable, but Perdue
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