Tag: Sen. Jason Carter

Martin Luther King III has called on the federal Justice Department to intervene in the nation’s foreclosure situation, a call that could have the effect of energizing voters in Georgia’s gubernatorial election.

King issued his letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on the heels of a controversial report on the nation’s housing market by the chief economist of Freddie Mac. The report paints a fairly rosy picture of the trend line of the jobs and housing sectors, at least on the national level.

At the state level, King’s call reminds Georgia voters of home foreclosures during a campaign in which Sen. Jason Carter, a Democrat, is pressing his point that Republican Gov. Nathan Deal hasn’t done enough to help the middle class. Deal points to jobs created since the end of the great recession.

A new report on Georgia’s education funding, from an Atlanta think tank, offers more fodder for the gubernatorial battle between Gov. Nathan Deal and challenger Sen. Jason Carter.

The report by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute finds little improvement since GBPI’s similar report last year – which determined that cutbacks in funding for K-12 education were causing local districts to trim days from the school year and assign more students to each teacher.

The GBPI report, “The Schoolhouse Squeeze 2014,” provides context for Carter’s claims that Deal has, “slashed billions of dollars from public education,” and for Deal’s claims that he has “prioritized education and child safety funding as state revenues rebound from the Great Recession.”