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Education Reform Commission Threatens to Cement in $421 Million Cut
Hover your mouse over the map to view information for each school district. See how we calculated these numbers ...
Georgia Shifts Cost to Bus Schoolchildren to Local Districts
Every day across Georgia school buses carry students safely to and from school. This is an essential service, ...
Healthier State Revenues Provide Opportunities
The welcome news is state tax revenues are up about 9.4 percent during the first three months of ...
So Many Georgians Struggle, but it Doesn’t Have to be That Way
For the last 15 years or so, I’ve peered out across many crowded rooms filled to capacity with ...
Pro-Worker Credits in Jeopardy this Labor Day
The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a federal holiday in 1894 to honor the contributions workers make every ...
Pending TANF Changes Could Send Georgia Budget Writers Scrambling
Pending changes to a federal work-development and safety-net program that relies on state contributions could create a shortfall ...
A Time-Tested Tax Tool to Grow Georgia’s Middle Class
Too many Georgians today work hard and play by the rules but fail to get ahead. Incomes are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Medicaid Turns 50: Half a Century of Providing Health Care to Georgians
By Ann Hedges This month, Medicaid turns 50. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark legislation into law July ...
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 ...
School District Employees Deserve Break from Rising Insurance Premiums
Just before the close of the 2015 fiscal year at the end of June, the state released a ...
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