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Georgia Department of Human Services budget FY 2022

Georgia Human Services Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022

Georgia’s 2022 Human Services Budget The $817 million FY 2022 budget for the Department of Human Services (DHS) ...
Georgia Health Care Budget Primer cover 2022

Georgia Health Care Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022

Georgia’s 2022 Health Care Budget The Departments of Community Health, Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and Public Health ...
Georgia Education Budget Primer cover 2022

Georgia Education Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022

This section is co-authored by K-12 Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Stephen Owens and Higher Education Senior Policy Analyst ...
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Why Scaling Back Unemployment Insurance Could Harm Recovery

Key Takeaways: Georgia is three days away from prematurely cutting pandemic unemployment insurance (UI). The changes will harm ...
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Make the Child Tax Credit Expansion Permanent

    One major provision of the American Families Plan extends the Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion, originally ...
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Letter in Support of the American Families Plan and the American Jobs Plan

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute recently sent a letter to Georgia’s U.S. representatives and senators to urge ...
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#RecoverGA Digital Day of Action Toolkit

    Congress is finalizing legislation meant to support recovery for Georgia and the entire country. GBPI will ...
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Fund Georgia’s Future and Partners Recommend a Plan for ARPA Funding

    Dear Superintendent Woods: The undersigned civil rights and education advocacy organizations in Georgia write to provide ...
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Support Federal Aid

It’s easy to write your lawmakers here. Your lawmakers in Congress have the opportunity to improve the lives ...
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Provisions in the American Families Plan

President Joe Biden recently unveiled his American Families Plan, which, along with his American Jobs Plan, form the ...
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Betting on our Future: Results from Pre-K Survey on Lottery Funding, Effects of COVID-19

    This report was co-authored by Stephen Owens, Ph.D, Senior Policy Analyst & Denae Clowers, Policy Intern ...
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State of Working Georgia: Pandemic Job Numbers Are Improving, But Inequitably

Key Takeaways: Nearly 60 percent of Georgia’s pre-pandemic labor force have turned to the unemployment safety net at ...

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