In Georgia, the War on Women is escalating, the casualties are mounting and there is no end in sight. No group was harder hit by the Great Recession and Georgia’s jobless recovery than Georgia women. But, you’d never know it by listening to the right-wing politicians in Atlanta. Instead of focusing on job creation or… [Read More]
Reality Check: Undocumented students a molehill, not a mountain
If you believe Sen. Barry Loudermilk (R-Cassville), undocumented students are a huge problem for Georgia’s colleges universities. These children of illegal immigrant parents simply have no place in Georgia classrooms and dorms, he says. But the secret Sen. Loudermilk and other conservative lawmakers don’t want to admit is that there are only 300 or so… [Read More]
Send Gov. Deal a pee cup. Don’t drug test Georgia residents!
You won’t like what Georgia state lawmakers did last night. While Georgia ranks dead last in job growth, our lawmakers ignored bills that would bring jobs back to Georgia and instead targeted people who’ve lost their jobs. On the last day for the General Assembly to pass bills through at least one chamber to give… [Read More]
Video: Rep. Terry England compares women to cows, pigs, chickens
A high risk pregnancy brings fear to the hearts of most couples. When a doctor tells a woman that her unborn child’s brain is not forming or that an organ has grown outside the fetus, there is a time of somber reflection and gut-wrenching contemplation. Republican lawmaker Terry England is not like most people. Instead,… [Read More]
POLL: Drug test lawmakers, not welfare recipients
Georgia’s lawmakers are out of step with Georgia voters when it comes to drug testing people who receive benefits from the government. While lawmakers are busy creating a drug screening test for Georgia’s poorest families, they have ignored two groups that receive and control a bigger share of government money: corporate executives and elected officials…. [Read More]
Cuts to unemployment benefits may hurt economic growth
In a move that will prove short-sighted, the Georgia Legislature is on the verge of slashing already low unemployment insurance benefits. Conservative lawmakers have a Pollyanna notion that Georgians will immediately get back to work once the government checks stop. This might be true if there were plenty of jobs available. But Georgia is dead… [Read More]
Cecil Staton believes Atlanta students work harder than Macon students
State Senator Cecil Staton, a Macon lawmaker, took an unusual position when he argued against fixing the broken HOPE Scholarship. Staton stood in the well of the senate chamber to emphatically argue that the HOPE Scholarship and the new Zell Miller Scholarship are provided to the state’s best and brightest students — and for those… [Read More]
Zell Miller created HOPE scholarships for low, middle-income families
Today on the Senate floor, some Georgia lawmakers stood up to explain why they don’t want to save HOPE this year. They gave a lot of reasons, including their support of Gov. Deal’s 25 new scholarships in three counties called the REACH scholarship. That’s enough scholarships for some politicians, I suppose. But time and again,… [Read More]
Infographic: Georgia HOPE Scholarship in Crisis
We all know the value of the HOPE Scholarship. In fact, 1.4 million Georgians have earned a HOPE Scholarship since the program started in 1993. But today the HOPE Scholarship is on the verge of financial collapse. Because the complicated policy issues around the program is tough to understand, Better Georgia put together an infographic… [Read More]
Doug ‘McFlip’ McKillip can’t decide why he’s a Republican
It’s getting easier to know when State Rep. Doug “McFlip” McKillip is lying: His lips are moving. In an article published online last night, the Republican lawmaker from Athens told the Banner-Herald why he introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. The former Democrat once supported abortion rights… [Read More]
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