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Senate Transportation Bill Escalates Pain for Education, Other Needs
Georgia’s state senators could inflict more than twice the pain contemplated by their House counterparts if they move ...
Key Questions for House Members about Opportunity School District Plan
This week members of Georgia’s House are set to debate the merits of Gov. Nathan Deal’s plan to ...
Transportation Plan Takes Positive Turn, Has a Few Miles to Go
The Georgia House of Representatives passed House Bill 170 last week, legislation that could generate nearly $1 billion ...
Proposed Insurance Industry Tax Credit a $139 Million Budget Drain
A proposed new tax credit program that benefits insurance companies would cost Georgia an estimated $139 million in ...
Threats to Child Care Affordability Undermine Georgia’s Workforce
An income tax shift proposal released last week proposes to eliminate Georgia’s credit for child and dependent care, the ...
Georgia Falls to Second Worst Uninsured Rate in U.S.
Georgia fell further behind nearly all other states in ensuring access to health coverage for its residents in ...
Hopes for New Approach to Revenues Dampened by New Income Tax Plan
Are state lawmakers ready to have “the talk” about new revenue? After hearing state lawmakers dismiss anti-tax crusader ...
House Budget Squeezes Schools, Health Care Providers
The Georgia House of Representatives this week rearranged the state’s 2016 budget plan for education, health care and ...
Tossing More Than 20,000 Georgians off State Health Plan a Bad Remedy
Tossing non-certified school district workers who work less than 30 hours per week off the State Health Benefit ...
Lift Georgia’s Economy with a Higher Minimum Wage
This month I spoke to a state senate committee about the merits of Senate Bill 15, legislation that ...
Private School Subsidy Bill Promises Sticker Shock
Georgia lawmakers are sounding out a kinproposal to create Education Savings Accounts to allow parents of private and ...
Tax Swap Brings No Small Change
GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig’s op-ed is featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; read full article here.
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