GBPI Director of Health Policy Tim Sweeney is quoted in this article on Medicaid expansion; he agrees that many Georgians would be left without health insurance if the state does not opt for Medicaid expansion. Read full article here.
Creative Loafing features GBPI Director of Health Policy Tim Sweeney’s statement on the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act ruling. Read full article here.
Data from GBPI is used in this discussion on federal subsides for higher performing day cares. Read full article here.
GBPI Senior Analyst Clare Richie believes the new unemployment tax laws are unfair to unemployed Georgians. Read full article here.
Senior Policy Analyst Clare Richie is quoted in this article on the cuts in unemployment benefits in Georgia and whether or not these cuts produce the projected savings. Read full article here.
Senior Policy Analyst Clare Ritchie is quoted in this article on the new Georgia unemployment law and whether or not the projected savings are accurate. Read full article here.
Senior Policy Analyst Clare Ritchie is quoted in this article about the new unemployment law in Georgia and whether or not the projected savings are, in fact, accurate. Read full article here.
GBPI Director of Health Tim Sweeney is quoted in this article on Medicaid’s $300 million shortfall; says Sweeney, “It’s evidence that the state budget is not adequate now to fund our current programs.” Read full article here.
Executive Director Alan Essig is quoted in this article on state revenues; read full article here.
GBPI Executive Director Alan Essig is quoted on Governor Deal’s decision to halt the plan to increase the state gas tax; Essig says the decision does not make “budgetary or economic sense.” Read full article here.
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GBPI is committed to tracking how the state of Georgia raises and spends fiscal resources. As the federal government has promised and provided some of these, cuts to programs and funding on the federal level could have deep and lasting impacts on Georgians and on the state’s ability to meet the needs of all its residents.
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