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Georgia’s Path to School Funding Reform Reaches Crossroads
An updated version of this report is available Georgia’s effort to overhaul the formula it uses to split ...
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 ...
A Bottom-Up Tax Cut to Build Georgia’s Middle Class
The Case for a State Earned Income Tax Credit Building a better Georgia, with a strong economy and ...
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 ...
Improved Adult Education Support Critical to Georgia’s Bottom Line
Georgia’s economic well-being is threatened by the high numbers of adults without a high school diploma or a ...
Georgia Budget Primer 2016
Where does the money for Georgia’s $21.8 billion budget come from this year? How does the new transportation ...
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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