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Isaac Sabetai is an audience specialist with the state and federal politics team. He builds data visualizations and other projects that help explain what Georgia lawmakers are doing and how the state is or isn't changing.
Emily Merwin DiRico has been doing information design and news application development at the AJC since she arrived as a summer intern in 2009. Her mission is to help readers understand complex data and how it affects them.
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Outrage and sadness fuel protest outside CDC
The firings began Tuesday for employees across the entire U.S. Health and Human Services Department, of which the CDC is a part.
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