Blog Cash and Safety Net K-12 Education Melissa Johnson Worker Justice Educating Adults Critical to Georgia’s Success August 6, 2015 / March 12, 2021 by Melissa Johnson | 1 Comment on Educating Adults Critical to Georgia’s Success School is starting this week for many Georgia children but education ended much too soon for many of the state’s adults. Nearly 866,000 Georgians from 18 to 64 are without a high school diploma or GED. Georgia is home to the ninth highest share of adults in this age range in the country without a […] Read more » Economic Security Education Melissa Johnson Report Safety Net
K-12 Education Melissa Johnson Reports Improved Adult Education Support Critical to Georgia’s Bottom Line August 6, 2015 / January 15, 2020 by Melissa Johnson Georgia’s economic well-being is threatened by the high numbers of adults without a high school diploma or a General Equivalency Development credential (GED®). Nearly 866,000 Georgians ages 18 to 64 do not have a high school diploma or GED. Georgia’s adult education programs served only about 60,600 adults in 2014. Georgia’s leaders recognize that its […] Read more » Economic Security Education Melissa Johnson Safety Net
Budget and Taxes Budget Primer Featured Library Policy Areas Reports Georgia Budget Primer 2016 August 5, 2015 / March 23, 2021 by GBPI Admin Where does the money for Georgia’s $21.8 billion budget come from this year? How does the new transportation tax work? Is Georgia finally funding K-12 education at the level called for in its own formula? GBPI’s “Georgia Budget Primer 2016” answers these questions and many more in 44 pages designed to provide a clear explanation […] Read more » Department of Human Services Education Georgia Budget Primer K-12 medicaid Medicaid Expansion State Budget State Taxes
Blog Wesley Tharpe Time to Retire Georgia’s Sales Tax Holidays July 30, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Wesley Tharpe | 1 Comment on Time to Retire Georgia’s Sales Tax Holidays This weekend marks the return of that semi-annual Georgia tradition, the two-day sales tax holiday, this one for back-to-school supplies. But when state legislators return to work in January 2016, they can seize the chance to bring the misguided tradition to an end. Experts from across the ideological spectrum agree that sales tax holidays provide […] Read more » sales tax holiday State Budget State Taxes Wesley Tharpe
Blog Medicaid Turns 50: Half a Century of Providing Health Care to Georgians July 24, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by GBPI Admin By Ann Hedges This month, Medicaid turns 50. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark legislation into law July 30, 1965. Since its inception, Medicaid has provided health coverage to some of Georgia’s most vulnerable residents. Low-income seniors and people with disabilities get stable access to health care services through the Aged, Blind, and Disabled program. […] Read more » Ann Hedges health medicaid Medicaid Expansion
Blog Claire Suggs Teacher Compensation a Contentious Issue for Education Reform Commission July 15, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Claire Suggs | 3 Comments on Teacher Compensation a Contentious Issue for Education Reform Commission Education funding is often a contentious topic, and so it is for the governor’s Education Reform Commission as a key subcommittee reconvenes this week for its July 16 meeting. Commission members disagree whether a new formula for funding public schools should be based on an assessment of cost, as I described in an earlier blog. […] Read more » Claire Suggs Education K-12
Blog Timothy Sweeney School District Employees Deserve Break from Rising Insurance Premiums July 10, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Just before the close of the 2015 fiscal year at the end of June, the state released a 24-page report examining the costs of Georgia’s State Health Benefit Plan. That is the health insurance plan for state employees, teachers, and other school district employees. The report is a requirement built into Georgia’s Amended 2015 budget and […] Read more » Education health Tim Sweeney
Blog Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Supreme Court Ruling Frees Georgia to Turn Attention to Closing Coverage Gap June 25, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Today the U.S. Supreme Court again upheld a key component of the Affordable Care Act against a politically-driven effort to dismantle the law through the court system. The ruling issued in King v. Burwell protects tax credits in states such as Georgia that chose to use the federal healthcare.gov marketplace rather than create their own […] Read more » health Tim Sweeney
Blog Wesley Tharpe Pro-Work Tax Credits Give Georgia Fathers a Hand June 19, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Wesley Tharpe Countless Georgians will celebrate the role that fathers play in their families this Sunday, on Father’s Day. They’ll reflect on all the hard-work, sacrifice, trials, tribulations and joy found along the path to successful fatherhood. It’s highly unlikely many families will talk much about their tax bills, but given something that’s going on in Congress […] Read more » Economic Security EITC Safety Net State Taxes Wesley Tharpe
Author Blog Cash and Safety Net Melissa Johnson Rising Child Poverty Places More Demand on Summer Feeding Programs June 17, 2015 / January 16, 2020 by Melissa Johnson | 1 Comment on Rising Child Poverty Places More Demand on Summer Feeding Programs Georgia summer nutrition programs served about 18,000 more children in July 2014 than in July 2013. That’s the good news. The bad news is that these programs still served less than one in six needy children in 2014, according to a recent report by the Food Research and Action Center. Georgia’s summer nutrition programs still […] Read more » Economic Security Melissa Johnson Safety Net
