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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Georgia Budget Primer 2016

Where does the money for Georgia’s $21.8 billion budget come from this year? How does the new transportation ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Supreme Court Ruling Frees Georgia to Turn Attention to Closing Coverage Gap

Today the U.S. Supreme Court again upheld a key component of the Affordable Care Act against a politically-driven ...
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Pro-Work Tax Credits Give Georgia Fathers a Hand

Countless Georgians will celebrate the role that fathers play in their families this Sunday, on Father’s Day. They’ll ...

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