Blogs

SNAP-food-box-696x465 (1) Alex Camardelle

Planned Federal Food Assistance Changes a Threat to Georgians, Grocers

The White House proposed a 2019 budget last month that makes steep cuts to one of the strongest ...
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Legislation Proposes Steps to Improve Rural Health Care, Omits Major Coverage Solution

State lawmakers introduced several bills this year aiming to improve access to health care in rural Georgia. Six ...
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All Georgians Stand to Lose from Immigrant Crackdown Measure

Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that poses serious risk to the state’s immigrant community and could harm ...
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Bill Proposes Grant for Working Georgia College Students with Financial Need

Bill Analysis: Senate Bill 405 (LC 21 5954 S, AM 21 3929) Georgia needs more people with higher ...
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Lawmakers Push to Shift Public Money to Private Schools

Georgia lawmakers seem determined to subsidize private schools with public dollars. Witness several bills in the 2018 General ...
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Crossover Day Delivers Mixed Bag for Education, Tax Policy

Legislation to allow the use of state money for private schools stalled on Crossover Day 2018, while a ...
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Time for Lawmakers to Choose Students Over Tax Cuts

Lawmakers are racing to pass a risky tax package that drains $1.4 billion a year from the state ...
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Invest in College Students Like They Invest in Themselves

Lizzie Mathias balances a full-time course load at Middle Georgia State University’s campus in Macon, works about 40 ...
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Support Students by Removing HOPE Seven-Year Time Limit

– Update on Feb. 26: House Bill 218 proposes to extend the time that students have to use the ...
Private-school-kids Blog

Push to Expand Private School Tax Scholarships Disregards Lack of Evidence, Accountability

Georgia’s Senate appears poised to act on an expansion of the state’s tax credit scholarship for private schools. ...
Immigrant-family Blog

Immigrants Make Georgia Stronger and Better Every Day

Nearly one in 10 Georgians today was born outside the United States and one in five under 18 ...
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Make a $1 Billion Investment in Georgia’s Youth, Workers, Families and Communities

As published by SaportaReport You’ve no doubt heard many times Georgia is the No. 1 place to do ...

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