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Proposed Federal Health Bill Is Potential 10-year, $4 Billion Drain on Georgia Treasury
Georgia stands to lose $4 billion in federal Medicaid funding over ten years if the proposed American Health ...
Reshuffling Income Tax Rates is a Faulty Economic Formula
State legislators are considering a package of income tax changes in the final days of the 2017 session ...
Private School Scholarship Savings Claims Deserve Skepticism
State lawmakers are considering a big expansion of the private school scholarship tax credit program. House Bill 217 ...
Misguided March to Expand Tax Credits for Private School Scholarships
The Georgia Senate is considering a plan to expand the state’s private school scholarship tax credit program after ...
Immigrant ID Bills Amount to $1 Million in Waste
One Senate bill and two House bills threaten to waste more than $1 million in state taxpayer dollars ...
GBPI Letter to Governor Outlines Pitfalls of Medicaid Caps, Block Grants
In a letter delivered today to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute outlined likely ...
Filling the Gaping Hole in Public School Budgets
State funding for Georgia’s public schools went up $1.5 billion from fiscal year 2014 to 2017 and is ...
Lawmakers, Policy Experts Draw a Crowd at GBPI’s Insights 2017
The largest crowd to attend a Georgia Budget and Policy Institute conference gathered at Insights 2017 in downtown ...
Georgia’s Economy at Risk if Affordable Care Act Repealed
Earlier this month the U.S. Congress passed a budget resolution in the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care ...
Stabilizing Georgia’s Health System Tops 2017 Legislative To-do List
As published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution A reeling state health care system. Chronically underfunded public schools. Working ...
Affordable Care Act Repeal Risks Health of 1 million Georgians
Congress appears poised to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) early in 2017 before enacting a ...
Hunger Risk for 21,100 Georgians in New Year
People in about one in seven Georgia households struggle with hunger, which often leads to costly health complications, ...
