Research

2019-budget

Georgia Budget Primer 2019

Click on the links below to learn about different policy areas of the 2019 budget. State Budget K-12 ...
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Food Assistance Helps Promote a Healthy Georgia

About 1.7 million Georgians receive help to put meals on the table through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...
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Overlooked Colleges Often a Springboard to Middle Class and Beyond

You might be familiar with college rankings, like the well-known list U.S. News and World Report compiles. Each ...
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GBPI’s 2017-2018 Milestones and Highlights

During Georgia’s 2017-2018 legislative cycle and throughout the months between those two sessions, the growing GBPI team improved ...
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Proposed Rule Change Threatens Legal Immigrants, U.S.-Born Children

The Trump administration appears likely to propose a change to longstanding immigration rules that could lead immigrants lawfully ...
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State Child Care Plan Makes Headway for Student Parents, Access Remains Restricted

Georgia officials are considering a plan for child care assistance that proposes improvements that can help families, but ...
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Health, Entrepreneurship, and Child Care Among Top Priorities for Georgia Women

Millions of moms graduate from college every year. Women-owned Georgia businesses generate millions of dollars in revenue and ...
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Rome Listening Tour Provides Earful on Community Mental Health Problems

Talk to people around Rome, Ga. for a while and the conversation often shifts to the lingering stresses ...
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Food Assistance for 1.7 million Georgians at Risk in Federal Proposals

Lawmakers in Congress and the Trump administration are staging a multi-prong assault on the nation’s primary tool for ...
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Lawmakers Slash Income Taxes, Approve Miscellaneous Tax Changes

Adding Up the Fiscal Notes: Session Recap 2018 Georgia legislators and Gov. Nathan Deal approved 11 tax measures ...
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Rome Stop on GBPI Listening Tour Highlights Need for Workforce Training, Health Care Access

On a beautiful spring morning in the northwest foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a group of community leaders ...
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Proposed Farm Bill Creates Steep Federal Barriers to Food Assistance

Congress is poised to put the nutritional health and economic vitality of hundreds of thousands of Georgians at ...

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