Blogs
Legislation Proposes Steps to Improve Rural Health Care, Omits Major Coverage Solution
Laura Harker
March 12, 2018
State lawmakers introduced several bills this year aiming to improve access to health care in rural Georgia. Six ...
All Georgians Stand to Lose from Immigrant Crackdown Measure
Wesley Tharpe
March 9, 2018
Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that poses serious risk to the state’s immigrant community and could harm ...
Bill Proposes Grant for Working Georgia College Students with Financial Need
Jennifer Lee
March 7, 2018
Bill Analysis: Senate Bill 405 (LC 21 5954 S, AM 21 3929) Georgia needs more people with higher ...
Lawmakers Push to Shift Public Money to Private Schools
Claire Suggs
March 5, 2018
Georgia lawmakers seem determined to subsidize private schools with public dollars. Witness several bills in the 2018 General ...
Crossover Day Delivers Mixed Bag for Education, Tax Policy
John McCosh
March 1, 2018
Legislation to allow the use of state money for private schools stalled on Crossover Day 2018, while a ...
Time for Lawmakers to Choose Students Over Tax Cuts
Claire Suggs
February 26, 2018
Lawmakers are racing to pass a risky tax package that drains $1.4 billion a year from the state ...
Invest in College Students Like They Invest in Themselves
Jennifer Lee
February 22, 2018
Lizzie Mathias balances a full-time course load at Middle Georgia State University’s campus in Macon, works about 40 ...
Support Students by Removing HOPE Seven-Year Time Limit
Jennifer Lee
February 9, 2018
– Update on Feb. 26: House Bill 218 proposes to extend the time that students have to use the ...
Push to Expand Private School Tax Scholarships Disregards Lack of Evidence, Accountability
Claire Suggs
February 8, 2018
Georgia’s Senate appears poised to act on an expansion of the state’s tax credit scholarship for private schools. ...
Immigrants Make Georgia Stronger and Better Every Day
Jennifer Owens
February 1, 2018
Nearly one in 10 Georgians today was born outside the United States and one in five under 18 ...
Make a $1 Billion Investment in Georgia’s Youth, Workers, Families and Communities
Taifa Smith Butler
January 29, 2018
As published by SaportaReport You’ve no doubt heard many times Georgia is the No. 1 place to do ...
People Powered Prosperity: A People-First Economic Vision for Georgia
Wesley Tharpe
January 25, 2018
Georgia today fails to fully leverage the state’s most powerful economic asset—its own people. The most successful, prosperous ...