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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education

Gov. Nathan Deal’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 provides nearly $9.8 billion to educate Georgia’s 1.7 million ...
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Immigrants Make Georgia Stronger and Better Every Day

Nearly one in 10 Georgians today was born outside the United States and one in five under 18 ...
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Overview: 2019 Fiscal Year Budget for Higher Education

Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed $2.4 billion budget for the university system and $367 million for technical colleges includes ...
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Make a $1 Billion Investment in Georgia’s Youth, Workers, Families and Communities

As published by SaportaReport You’ve no doubt heard many times Georgia is the No. 1 place to do ...
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People Powered Prosperity: A People-First Economic Vision for Georgia

Georgia today fails to fully leverage the state’s most powerful economic asset—its own people. The most successful, prosperous ...
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Invest in Child Care to Tap Families’ Economic Potential

This past October, more than 1,000 Georgians and several statewide organizations added their names to a letter asking ...
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Overview of Georgia’s 2019 Fiscal Year Budget

The $26 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2019 fiscal year starting July 1, ...
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Fast facts on Georgia’s coverage gap

Updated Jan 17, 2019 Georgia’s Health Coverage Gap State lawmakers can put an insurance card in the pockets of ...
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People Powered Prosperity: An Investment Plan to Unlock Georgia’s Economic Potential

Georgia today fails to fully leverage the state’s most powerful economic asset—its own people. The most successful, prosperous ...

People-Powered Prosperity: Endnotes and Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute thanks the many national organizations whose guidance, support and data were ...
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People-Powered Prosperity: Georgia Can Afford an Ambitious Investment in its People

To achieve broad-based prosperity, Georgia must adopt policies that bolster investments in communities and empower more people to ...
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People-Powered Prosperity: Thriving Families

When parents have money in their pockets to make ends meet and to save or invest in their ...

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