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State Shortchanges Public Schools Again
Georgia is underfunding public schools by $747 million in the 2015 fiscal year that starts July 1, continuing ...
Medicaid Expansion Still Georgia’s Best Way to Bridge Coverage Gap
As published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on May 11, 2014 A quick scan of recent headlines could leave ...
Up to 700 Georgia Schools Offered New Option to Combat Child Hunger
About one-third of Georgia schools can now participate in the second year of a new federal program designed ...
New Brief: Slow-Growth Stalls Georgia Economy
Georgia continues to face serious economic challenges more than four years since the start of the national recovery, ...
Georgia Still Climbing Out of Deep Economic Hole
State of Working Georgia: Spring Update, 2014 Georgia continues to face serious economic challenges more than four years ...
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 ...
HOPE Scholars Pick Up Increasing Share of College Costs
Students from low- or moderate-income families must clear ever-higher financial hurdles to complete a postsecondary program in Georgia. ...
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 ...
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