Fact Sheets
Advancing Transparency and Accountability in Georgia’s Tax Code: Key Recommendations for Informed Fiscal Oversight
Danny Kanso
December 12, 2023
Transparency in the state tax code impacts Georgians and allows state policymakers to understand where taxpayer ...
Money Matters: Comparing the Costs of Full Medicaid Expansion to the Pathways to Coverage Program
Leah Chan
January 11, 2023
Updated February 22, 2023: In the October 2020 Pathways to Coverage approval letter, it was estimated ...
Keeping Georgians Covered: Tools for Minimizing the Harm of the Medicaid Unwinding
Leah Chan
October 26, 2022
Updated February 1, 2023: On December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was signed ...
Getting the Green Light for Health Care: An Update on Efforts to Get More Georgians Covered
Leah Chan
August 31, 2022
Updated January 10, 2023: In August 2022, a federal judge in Georgia cleared the way for ...
The Need for Need-Based Aid
Jennifer Lee
February 23, 2022
Georgia is one of only two states that lack broad need-based financial aid. 75 percent of Georgians support ...
Fact Sheet: Georgia’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Family’s Benefit Has Not Increased in More Than 30 Years and Fails to Meet the Growing Cost of Basic Needs
Ife Finch Floyd
February 8, 2022
Georgia’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Family’s (TANF) benefit has not increased in more than 30 ...
Fact Sheet: Sports Betting
Jennifer Lee
January 27, 2022
Co-authored by Danny Kanso, Senior Policy Analyst for Budget & Taxes As of January 2022, 31 ...
Fact Sheet: Breaking Down the Federal Recovery Proposal
Alex Welch
October 6, 2021
Several policies included in ongoing federal recovery discussions have the power to rebalance our tax code, ...
Billions of Dollars Behind: District Facts Sheets Show Georgia Schools are Far from “Full Funding”
Stephen Owens
September 21, 2021
Over the last twenty years of public school funding in Georgia, the General Assembly has underfunded grants and ...
Georgia Can Leverage $4.9 Billion in American Rescue Plan Funds to Jumpstart Recovery
Alex Welch
July 26, 2021
Georgia will receive $4.9 billion in federal emergency relief and infrastructure funding as part of the ...
2021 Fast Facts on HOPE
Jennifer Lee
July 19, 2021
HOPE At-a-Glance provides a quick and simple reference of the state’s six lottery-funded HOPE programs. HOPE provides ...
Make the Child Tax Credit Expansion Permanent
Alex Welch
June 18, 2021
One major provision of the American Families Plan extends the Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion, originally ...