GBPI Analyst Melissa Johnson is quoted in this article on poverty in the state; read full article here.
By Misty Williams Georgia’s doctors association has come out in support of Medicaid expansion in the state. Georgia’s hospitals and now its powerful association of doctors say the state should expand Medicaid to cover hundreds of thousands of people who
GBPI’s 2013 policy forum on Medicaid expansion is covered here.
GBPI Director of Healthy Policy Tim Sweeney makes Georgia Trend’s “40-Under-40” list; read full article here.
GBPI Senior Education Analyst Claire Suggs is quoted in this article on the education budget shortfall in Georgia; read full article here.
GBPI Senior Education Analyst Claire Suggs is quoted in this article on the education budget shortfall in Georgia’s 180 school districts; read full article here.
GBPI analyst Wesley Tharpe is quoted in this article on the state income tax; read full article here.
GBPI Director of Health Policy Tim Sweeney is quoted in this article on health savings under Medicaid expansion; read full article here.
The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) is pleased to present its Georgia Budget Primer 2014, a guide to understanding the state’s revenue collections and its spending plan. The publication contains basics to help a novice digest the budget’s complexities.
Georgia’s spending to help children, the poor and seniors is overseen by the state Department of Human Services, which has a 2014 budget of $486 million, or about 3 percent of the total. Budget cuts in recent years have strained
The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute works to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians.
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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.
Submit public comment on Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage program extension by February 20th – just complete this easily fillable form:
