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Lawmakers Approve Major Tax Plan, Still Reviewing Several Tax Breaks
Wesley Tharpe
March 14, 2018
Adding Up the Fiscal Notes: Post Crossover Day 2018 A range of tax bills are still in the ...
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 ...
Private School Savings Accounts Lack Oversight, Could Prove Costly
Claire Suggs
February 22, 2018
Bill Analysis: House Bill 482 (LC 33 7253S) Georgia lawmakers are considering a plan to allow parents to ...
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 ...
Lawmakers Might Come to Regret Georgia’s Risky Tax Plan
Wesley Tharpe
February 22, 2018
Bill Analysis: House Bill 918 Substitute (LC 34 5383-ECS); Feb. 22, 2018 Georgia leaders are now rushing a ...
Governor’s Tax Plan Carries $1 Billion Price
Wesley Tharpe
February 14, 2018
– GBPI press statement issued Feb. 20 in response to governor’s revised tax cut plan introduced earlier that ...
Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Human Services
Taifa Smith Butler
February 13, 2018
Foster Care Services Get Increases for Foster Parents, Child Placement Agencies Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed $788 million Department ...
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