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The Coronavirus’s Harsher Reality for the Most Vulnerable
+ Full Article: The Coronavirus’s Harsher Reality for the Most VulnerableThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is creating new burdens and exacerbating existing ones for Americans at the economic margins. Government has the obligation and the opportunity to ease those burdens. A major problem of the nature of work in America: Far too many people are unemployed or underemployed, and don’t have access to benefits like paid…
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It is Time to Bolster Georgia’s Unemployment Insurance System
+ Full Article: It is Time to Bolster Georgia’s Unemployment Insurance SystemDownload PDF As of March 26, 2020, the Department of Labor has extended the Unemployment Insurance benefits duration to 26 weeks Georgia faces a critical moment to lessen current and impending financial harm for working families, especially those with low wages, during the current coronavirus public health emergency. More than one-third of Georgia workers…
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Families First Coronavirus Response Act to Provide Georgians with Initial Wave of Assistance
+ Full Article: Families First Coronavirus Response Act to Provide Georgians with Initial Wave of AssistanceLate in the evening on March 18, President Trump signed H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The measure touches a broad array of issues from health care to food assistance to paid leave. The goal of the legislation is to address and ultimately stem the spread of coronavirus by unleashing resources aimed…
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Fighting COVID-19 in Georgia With Medicaid and New Funding
+ Full Article: Fighting COVID-19 in Georgia With Medicaid and New FundingThe first cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Georgia were reported on March 3, 2020, and the number of people with the virus continues to rise statewide and across the nation. Efforts are underway to help slow the spread of the virus and increase health system capacity for testing and treatment. President Trump declared a…
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Crossover Day Recap: Senate Approves Expanding Record Restriction Before Session is Suspended
+ Full Article: Crossover Day Recap: Senate Approves Expanding Record Restriction Before Session is SuspendedCrossover Day 2020, the deadline by which bills must pass their legislative chamber of origination in order to be considered by the other chamber this session, was marked by much more than the usual flurry of last-minute deals, supplemental rules calendars, forceful requests to reconsider bills that fail floor votes and unending streams of unhealthy…
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Ga. House may go after ‘double deduction’ some get when they file income tax returns
+ Full Article: Ga. House may go after ‘double deduction’ some get when they file income tax returnsThe Georgia House is considering eliminating the “double deduction” of state income taxes some Georgians can take on their tax returns. […] The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute think tank, which opposes state tax cuts for upper-income Georgians, estimated that eliminating the double deduction would raise $130 million in tax revenue. It would increase taxes on…
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A Flat Tax is Wrong for Georgia
+ Full Article: A Flat Tax is Wrong for GeorgiaDownload PDF Sharp Revenue Losses, Middle-Class Tax Increases Pay for Big Tax Cuts for Top Earners Members of the Georgia General Assembly are considering legislation, HB 949 (LC 43 1624S), to change the structure of the state’s income tax in ways that would negatively affect hundreds of thousands of families across the state while threatening…
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Georgia House backs second income tax rate cut since 2018
+ Full Article: Georgia House backs second income tax rate cut since 2018Less than an hour after passing a state budget that included spending cuts, the Georgia House backed a plan Tuesday to cut the state income tax rate for the second time since 2018. […] The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, an Atlanta think tank that opposes the bill, said it would reduce state revenue by…
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Lawmakers Move Forward With State Income Tax Rate Cut, Tax Code Reform
+ Full Article: Lawmakers Move Forward With State Income Tax Rate Cut, Tax Code ReformGeorgia state lawmakers are moving forward with a proposal to further cut the state income tax rate, and shift its structure from a graduated income tax ranging from 2% to 5.75% depending on income to a flat income tax rate: 5.375% for all incomes. Danny Kanso, an analyst with the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI)…
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