For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
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Medicaid Unwinding: A time for expansion?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income adults and children, is designed to keep citizens healthy and provide necessary medical care. It also provides critical funding for hospitals and other…
School Vouchers: A bad idea for Georgia schools
The premise of school vouchers is for the state to give tax money to students to use in private schools. The scheme has been around for many years, and like a bad penny, it just seems to keep turning up. The current iteration is SB 233. This bill would give a $6,000..
Two ways to protect the Okefenokee
This article first appeared in Political Peach News My family’s budget is a plan to match our expenses with our income. The money going out can be divided into two buckets: what we must spend on essential necessities like food, shelter, and clothing, and discretionary…
Unprecedented: Reproductive Justice Activist and Lawyer Megan Gordon-Kane, on the Dobbs Decision
In the years leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Megan Gordon-Kane says that she and other reproductive justice activists felt like Kassandra, the mythological priestess gifted with predicting the future, while at the same time cursed, never to be believed….
Georgia lawmakers continue to defund schools in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
The significant presence of children from private Christian schools at the signing of Kemp’s education bills Thursday, was notable for two reasons, according to progressive activists who showed up to sign the wave: firstly, because these religious institutions showed…
Summer of Resistance: Paving a United Path Forward for Georgia
For decades, Black activists, specifically in Atlanta, have led the charge for change, and each generation has passed the torch to the next.
Medicaid Unwinding: A time for expansion?
This article first appeared in Political Peach News Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income adults and children, is designed to keep citizens healthy and provide necessary medical care. It also provides critical funding for hospitals and other…
School Vouchers: A bad idea for Georgia schools
The premise of school vouchers is for the state to give tax money to students to use in private schools. The scheme has been around for many years, and like a bad penny, it just seems to keep turning up. The current iteration is SB 233. This bill would give a $6,000..
Two ways to protect the Okefenokee
This article first appeared in Political Peach News My family’s budget is a plan to match our expenses with our income. The money going out can be divided into two buckets: what we must spend on essential necessities like food, shelter, and clothing, and discretionary…
Unprecedented: Reproductive Justice Activist and Lawyer Megan Gordon-Kane, on the Dobbs Decision
In the years leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Megan Gordon-Kane says that she and other reproductive justice activists felt like Kassandra, the mythological priestess gifted with predicting the future, while at the same time cursed, never to be believed….
Georgia lawmakers continue to defund schools in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
The significant presence of children from private Christian schools at the signing of Kemp’s education bills Thursday, was notable for two reasons, according to progressive activists who showed up to sign the wave: firstly, because these religious institutions showed…