K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Hidden Costs Exact a Toll: Results from GBPI’s 2022 School District Survey September 20, 2022 / September 20, 2022 by Stephen Owens This report was co-authored by Monica Obregon, a fellow in the Southern Education Leadership Initiative, a program within the Southern Education Foundation Every year, the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute (GBPI) distributes a survey to each superintendent in the state to collect information on the effects of education funding on individual school districts, what improvements need […] Read more » Education K-12 poverty
Blog Ray Khalfani Worker Justice Labor Day 2022: Georgia’s Correctional Control and Carceral Abuse Hurt All Workers September 5, 2022 / September 6, 2022 by Ray Khalfani Despite strides to improve the employment prospects of Georgians who have contact with the criminal legal system, state policy choices have counteracted those strides, demonstrating how much we undervalue and disinvest in Georgia workers. This disinvestment is magnified as Georgia’s uneven pandemic recovery continues. The overall likelihood of unemployment in general and Black-white un- and […] Read more » Economic Security Jobs Unemployment Insurance
Fact Sheets Health Justice Leah Chan Getting the Green Light for Health Care: An Update on Efforts to Get More Georgians Covered August 31, 2022 / January 10, 2023 by Leah Chan Updated January 10, 2023: In August 2022, a federal judge in Georgia cleared the way for the Pathways Coverage program to proceed. The federal government opted not to make an appeal during the 60-day window, and in October 2022, the Department of Community Health announced that it was moving forward with planning for […] Read more » 1115 waiver 1332 waiver Affordable Care Act health health coverage health insurance health-care medicaid Medicaid Expansion
Blog Cash and Safety Net Ife Finch Floyd Inclusive Economy for Immigrants Cash Supports Should be Integrated into the Maternal-Infant Health Policy Agenda August 29, 2022 / August 30, 2022 by Ife Finch Floyd GBPI would like to thank Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia for their thoughtful review of this paper. Key Takeaways The wellbeing of Georgia’s children and families starts with healthy mothers and babies. Research is finds that financial stability during the earliest years of a child’s life can lead to positive outcomes in adulthood. […] Read more » child care EITC housing maternal health medicaid Safety Net TANF
K-12 Education Reports Stephen Owens Special Education Funding in Georgia August 24, 2022 / September 20, 2022 by Stephen Owens | 2 Comments on Special Education Funding in Georgia By several measures Georgia has a typical special education program, but this says less about the state and more about the inequities that our nation allows to proliferate within the education for students with disabilities. Any evaluation of the program is a practice of deciding just how different a state or nation would allow an […] Read more » Education K-12 special education
Blog Dominique Derbigny Sims Health Justice Worker Justice Georgia’s Abortion Ban Threatens Violence and Economic Insecurity for Black Women August 23, 2022 / April 25, 2023 by Dominique Derbigny Sims Georgia’s history is fraught with violence against Black women. Deriving from the painful origins of slavery, where Black women were forced into pregnancy and childbirth by their enslavers, we find ourselves in an eerily familiar landscape where women are denied the autonomy to choose whether or when to birth babies. In 2019, Georgia lawmakers passed […] Read more » COVID-19 Economic Security racial equity women
Blog K-12 Education Stephen Owens Three Ways to Fix Georgia Education Funding August 9, 2022 / August 9, 2022 by Stephen Owens Five Georgia senators will meet over the next few months to review education funding mechanisms as a part of Senate Resolution 650. The Quality Basic Education Act (QBE) determines the bulk of state funding for public schools and has undergone few changes since its enactment in 1985. What follows are three ways lawmakers can update […] Read more » Education K-12 opportunity weight pupil transportation
Cash and Safety Net GBPI In The News Health Justice K-12 Education Press Releases & Statements PRESS RELEASE: Georgia Must Reinforce Health and Safety Net Ecosystem in The Wake of The 11th Circuit Decision August 4, 2022 / August 8, 2022 by Anthony Hill RELEASE: Georgia Must Reinforce Health and Safety Net Ecosystem in The Wake of The 11th Circuit Decision ATLANTA — In response to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit’s decision last week to allow Georgia’s House Bill 481 to go into effect following the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade, the Georgia Budget and […] Read more » health health-care immigration Press Release
Blog Budget and Taxes Daniel Kanso, PhD With Record Surplus, Georgia Stands at a Crossroads Ahead of Pivotal Budget Session August 2, 2022 / August 1, 2022 by Daniel Kanso, PhD | 1 Comment on With Record Surplus, Georgia Stands at a Crossroads Ahead of Pivotal Budget Session Last month, Georgia’s Department of Revenue released its report of unaudited tax collections for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, which ended on June 30, indicating that the state will once again run a surplus that leaves it with a record level of cash on hand and a full Revenue Shortfall Reserve (RSR) that acts as the […] Read more » Budget Budget & Taxes revenue Revenue Shortfall Reserve surplus
Budget Primer Cash and Safety Net Georgia Human Services Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2023 July 27, 2022 / July 26, 2022 by Ife Finch Floyd This section is co-authored by Economic Justice Senior Policy Analyst Ife Finch Floyd and Worker Justice and Criminal Legal Systems Policy Analyst Ray Khalfani. Georgia’s 2023 Human Services Budget State lawmakers approved $920 million for the Department of Human Services (DHS). The DHS budget restores cuts from previous years and includes more state resources than […] Read more » Department of Human Services Safety Net State Budget
