March 14, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that Georgia’s unemployment rate held steady in January at 3.6%, despite declines in jobs, the size of the state’s labor force, and the number of employed. The jobless rate in the Peach State in February was four-tenths of a point lower than the national unemployment rate.
Laura Gibson-Lamothe, Executive Director, Georgia Fintech Academy
March 14, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Susana Hills reports, Tom Oder wrote Georgia’s Fintech Evolution for the March 2025 issue of Georgia Trend’s Business section. Georgia Fintech Academy is is a talent development initiative for any student to learn more about fintech (financial technology) and interact with fintech employers.
March 14, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Zachary Hansen and Kelly Yamanouchi report, whether it’s placing an order or budgeting for a project, confidence is key when making business decisions. Tariff whiplash from the White House has given businesses anything but certainty in recent weeks.
March 14, 2025 WABE
Marlon Hyde reports, the consuls general of Canada and Mexico say that Georgia businesses that export goods to their countries should be worried about retaliatory tariffs. The World Affairs Council of Atlanta recently hosted Javier Díaz de León, consul general of Mexico in Atlanta, and Rosaline Kwan, consul general of Canada in Atlanta, to talk about how tariffs and the current trade war are impacting our North American neighbors.
March 14, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Staff reports, yesterday TIME revealed its annual of the World’s Greatest Places, which highlights 100 extraordinary destinations to visit and stay worldwide. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia is one of 50 “Places to Visit” to make the 2025 list and just one of twelve places within the U.S.!
March 14, 2025 WSB Radio
Staff reports that Joseph Cortes, Executive Director of the Georgia Craft Brewers’ Guild says it’s been hard for many breweries ever since the pandemic. But now, recently enacted tariffs on aluminum and steel imports could have a major impact on Georgia breweries.
March 14, 2025 The Brunswick News
Michael Hall reports that Glynn County Schools Director of School Nutrition Shelley Daniel took every opportunity she could the past two school years to use locally produced food bought through a federal grant program as an educational tool. Those teachable moments will not continue next year.
March 14, 2025 Augusta Chronicle
Joseph Hotchkiss reports that Fort Eisenhower has spent more than $91 million on Hurricane Helene recovery at the U.S. Army installation, and crews aren’t done yet. Garrison Commander Col. Anthony Kazor has described the fort’s “phased approach” in repairing 344 on-base homes from minor interior repairs to complete roof replacements.
March 14, 2025 Georgia.gov
Staff reports that Gov. Kemp on Thursday announced the Georgia Student Finance Commission Board has voted to approve his recommendation of Chris Green as the next president of the state agency. Green will fill the role at the beginning of April, following the retirement of current president Lynne Riley who shared her plans with the governor at the beginning of this year.
March 14, 2025 WABE
Kendall Murry reports that U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced Tuesday a bipartisan bill designed to make homeownership affordable for first responders and teachers nationwide. Alongside Republican Florida Sen. Ashley Moody, Ossoff brought the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act of 2025 to the Senate floor earlier this week.
March 14, 2025 Athens Banner-Herald
Vanessa Countryman reports that Georgia State Senator Blake Tillery (R-Vidalia) has recently spoken about the issue of “debanking” in support of Trump. According to a Georgia Senate press release, a Georgia Senate bill aiming to protect against unjustified bank account closures was recently defeated.
March 14, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Ross Williams reports, for a long time, education advocates under the Gold Dome have lamented that Georgia is one of only six states that does not allocate specific state funds to help educate students living in poverty. What those advocates want is a change to the Quality Basic Education formula that determines the state share of education funding distributed to local schools.
March 14, 2025 State Affairs
Beau Evans reports that lawmakers are weighing how much money to send Georgia prisons to help fix pervasive problems with broken cell locks, guard shortages and contraband-carrying drones. Budget writers in the Georgia Senate are considering a state spending plan for next fiscal year that would add an extra $250 million to the Department of Corrections’ roughly $1.5 billion budget.
March 14, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Ty Tagami reports that Georgia Bureau of Investigations would have expanded authority to compel telecommunications and internet companies to divulge subscriber information under legislation moving through the state legislature. House Bill 161 could soon get the nod for a vote by the Senate, after the House of Representatives approved it by a wide bipartisan margin last week and after a Senate committee moved it forward this week.
March 14, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Jill Nolin reports that Shanette Williams is again calling on state lawmakers to repeal Georgia’s six-week abortion ban that she says led to her 28-year-old daughter’s death shortly after the law took effect in 2022. Williams, who is the mother of Amber Nicole Thurman, found a national platform for her message last year when she joined the campaign trail with then Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
March 14, 2025 Capitol Beat News
Dave Williams reports that both sides of the controversial tort reform issue got their say at the Georgia Capitol Thursday, not on either the state House or Senate floors but in the hallways under the Gold Dome. A group of business owners held a news conference Thursday morning to endorse legislation Gov. Brian Kemp has singled out as his top priority for the 2025 General Assembly session.
March 14, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is holding the first major event of his reelection campaign next weekend as he tries to channel angst and opposition to President Donald Trump into political momentum. Ossoff’s campaign is mobilizing voters for his March 22 “Rally for Our Republic” in Atlanta by urging Democrats to fight Trump and other Republicans who are “determined to consolidate power, sow chaos and entrench unprecedented corruption.”