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Completion Grants Help Students Persist and Graduate

Access to postsecondary education can transform a student’s life. But sometimes, especially for the 42 percent of students ...
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The Need for Need-Based Aid

Georgia is one of only two states that lack broad need-based financial aid. 75 percent of Georgians support ...
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Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning

    In his Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget, Gov. Kemp proposed $461 million for the Department of ...
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Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections

    For Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a $1.27 billion budget for the Georgia ...
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Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

    Gov. Brian Kemp’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget proposal increases funding for the Department of Behavioral ...
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Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Public Health

    GBPI Research Director David Schaefer also contributed to this report. Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a 2023 ...
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Hundreds of Millions of Dollars at Stake for a Failed Policy | Bill Analysis House Bill 60 (LC 49 0793S)

  Note: This piece provides an update to a 2021 analysis of a previous version of the bill, ...
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Bill Analysis: House Bill 999 (LC 49 0739)

  Key Takeaways House Bill 999 relies on a faulty measure to calculate the state’s allocations to public ...
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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

      Georgia’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Family’s (TANF) benefit has not increased in more than 30 ...
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Higher Education Committee Hears Performance Audit of Student Access Loans

At the House Higher Education Committee meeting on February 2, the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts presented ...
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Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Community Health

    Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a 2023 budget of $3.9 billion in state general funds for the ...
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Overview: Georgia’s 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for Human Services

    Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed $903 million Department of Human Services (DHS) budget for the 2023 fiscal ...

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