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Rising Tuition and Shrinking HOPE Squeeze College Students
Georgia is home to the seventh largest tuition increase in the nation between 2008 and 2014, according to ...
Time Running Short to Sponsor Summer Food Program for Children
Next week in College Park, the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning will conduct its last training ...
Radical Tax Policies in Kansas Offer Georgia a Cautionary Tale
Trimming Georgia’s income tax rate is a hot topic of late and will likely be debated during the ...
Needy Georgians may go hungry
As published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on April 18, 2014. The state’s chronic underfunding of its human ...
Georgia’s Disinvestment in Higher Education is at Expense of State’s Economic Future
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia raised next year’s tuition at Georgia Tech 9 ...
Newspaper Series Shines Light on What Georgia Loses Without Medicaid Expansion
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Misty Williams just got a well-deserved laurel from the Columbia Journalism Review for her exemplary ...
Income Tax Cap Resolution a Low Point for 2014 Legislature
A reckless constitutional amendment designed to tie the hands of future lawmakers and hamstring the state’s ability to ...
Legacy of 2014 Legislature was to Make Georgia’s Faulty Health Care Policy Worse
Georgia is home to more residents without health insurance coverage than all but four states. Still, state lawmakers ...
Legislature’s Education Spending Plan Better, but Still Earns a “Needs Improvement”
The governor and state legislators made education funding a major talking point during the 2014 legislative session. Lawmakers ...
Georgia Legislature Moves to Keep Poor People Poor
Almost 2 million low-income Georgians will find it harder to get ahead in the future, thanks to counterproductive ...
Scorched Earth Politics of 2014 Will Hurt Georgia Families for Years
The 2014 Georgia General Assembly is mercifully over now, but its legacy of lost opportunity will haunt Georgia ...
Tax Resolution is Troubling and Unnecessary
The tax committee in Georgia’s House of Representatives is set to consider a recommendation to change the state’s ...
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