Press Releases & Statements

GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig is quoted on FY2013 state budget.  Click here for full article.

GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig believes Governor Deal’s 2013 budget maintains the status quo in Georgia and does not do much to boost  the state’s overall economy.  Essig is quoted in the full article.   

GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig comments on Governor Deal’s decision to veto expenses for two capital projects in the fiscal 2013 state budget.  Read full article here.

GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig discusses bonds and special projects and how politics influence which pets projects receive funding.  Essig calls bonds “the way they reward folks” in the Legislature.  Read full article here.

GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig is quoted on Baxter plant incentives issue and whether or not it is beneficial to the state.  Read full article here.

GBPI Director of Healthy Policy Tim Sweeney discusses $63 million funding gap for health insurance plans for state workers and retirees.  Tim is quoted in the full article. 

Former Superintendent Stan DeJarnett sought input from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute in 2008  prior to making a decision on the senior tax exemption in Morgan County.  Read full article here.

GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig discusses Georgia’s unemployment rate with Associated Press Reporter Errin Haines. Read the full article here, here, or here.

Data from GBPI’s House Bill 386 analysis is used by Tom Spigolon of NeighborNewspapers.com to discuss tax reform in Georgia. Read the full article.

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ATLANTA  – Households in counties with the lowest median incomes receive a smaller share of HOPE college assistance than households in counties with the highest median incomes, even though they contribute more to Lottery proceeds that fund the program, according to a report released today by the… [Read more]