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Ballooning Tax Credit for Private School Scholarships
Claire Suggs
February 27, 2017
Bill Analysis: House Bill 217 (LC 34 5120S) State lawmakers are considering a bill that proposes to swell ...
Education Savings Accounts Carry Huge Price Tag
Claire Suggs
February 21, 2017
Fact Sheet: Senate Bill 68 (LC 33 6784) Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill to allow parents to ...
Income Tax Bill Offers Earned Income Tax Credit Upside, Flat Tax Downside
Wesley Tharpe
February 21, 2017
Bill Analysis: House Bill 329 (LC 43 0564) – Updated February 27, 2017 Members of the Georgia House ...
Immigrant ID Bills Amount to $1 Million in Waste
Melissa Johnson
February 17, 2017
One Senate bill and two House bills threaten to waste more than $1 million in state taxpayer dollars ...
GBPI Letter to Governor Outlines Pitfalls of Medicaid Caps, Block Grants
GBPI Admin
February 15, 2017
In a letter delivered today to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute outlined likely ...
Overview: 2018 Fiscal Year Budget for Higher Education
Claire Suggs
February 13, 2017
Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed budget of nearly $2.3 billion for the university system and approximately $360 million for ...
Overview: 2018 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs
Claire Suggs
February 10, 2017
Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed 2018 budget includes $57.4 million in additional lottery funds, bringing the combined total for ...
Overview: 2018 Fiscal Year Budget for Human Services
Melissa Johnson
February 7, 2017
Services for Children and Older Adults Get Substantial Boost Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed $732 million Department of Human ...
Filling the Gaping Hole in Public School Budgets
Claire Suggs
February 7, 2017
State funding for Georgia’s public schools went up $1.5 billion from fiscal year 2014 to 2017 and is ...
Overview: 2018 Budget for Department of Community Health
Laura Harker
February 7, 2017
Governor Nathan Deal proposes a 2018 budget of $2.57 billion in state general funds for the Department of ...
Overview: 2018 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education
Claire Suggs
February 2, 2017
Gov. Nathan Deal’s budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year boosts funding for Georgia’s 1.7 million public school ...
Young Immigrants Vital to Georgia’s Workforce, Healthy Economy
Wesley Tharpe
February 1, 2017
Potential harsher federal immigration policies under the new presidential administration pose special concern for young Georgians whose parents ...
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