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What We’re Reading – Wednesday, September 16, 2015

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To access links, pls click on full post.   Affordable Housing Impact Statements Could Guide Policy in Atlanta Saporta Report (op-ed by Matthew Charles Cardinale, APN News Editor) http://saportareport.com/affordable-housing-impact-statements-could-guide-policy-in-atlanta/   Nathan Deal as Religious Liberty Peacemaker -We Shall All See Political Insider blog, Atlanta Journal-Constitution http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/09/02/nathan-deal-as-religious-liberty-peacemaker-we-shall-see/   Georgia Equality Launches Video Series Highlighting Workplace Discrimination of LGBT Georgians Georgia Voice […]

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USDA Declares Georgia’s Food Stamp Drug Testing Law to be Illegal

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(APN) ATLANTA — We told you so.  As it turns out, State Rep. Greg Morris’s (R-Vidalia) House Bill 772–requiring food stamp recipients to be drug tested if a state worker had a so-called “reasonable suspicion” that the recipient might be using drugs–is illegal.    Food Stamp caseworkers are not trained to detect drug use and “reasonable suspicion” is not defined. […]

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Georgia Legislature Crossover Day Overview

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  (APN) ATLANTA — Monday, March 03, 2014, was Crossover Day for the Georgia Legislature.  This is the day by which any bills had to have passed either the State House or State Senate in order to still be alive for consideration in the other respective chamber this year.   The following is a summary of the current status of […]

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(IPS) U.S. Hungry Face Major Cuts in Food Aid

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This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/u-s-hungry-face-major-cuts-in-food-aid/ ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31 2013 (IPS) – The U.S. Congress is on the brink of making billions of dollars in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, which provides direct benefits to individuals and families in poverty.  SNAP benefits are already set to decrease […]

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