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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 ...
Georgia Stands to Lose Millions from Crackdown on Young Immigrants
Wesley Tharpe
February 1, 2017
The potential for harsher federal immigration policies under the new presidential administration poses special concern for young Georgians ...
Lawmakers, Policy Experts Draw a Crowd at GBPI’s Insights 2017
John McCosh
January 27, 2017
The largest crowd to attend a Georgia Budget and Policy Institute conference gathered at Insights 2017 in downtown ...
Overview of Georgia’s 2018 Fiscal Year Budget
Wesley Tharpe
January 25, 2017
The $25 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2018 fiscal year starting July 1, ...
Georgia’s Economy at Risk if Affordable Care Act Repealed
Laura Harker
January 20, 2017
Earlier this month the U.S. Congress passed a budget resolution in the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care ...
School Districts Stuck with Higher Busing Costs in Proposed Formula
Claire Suggs
January 13, 2017
Rural school districts and others with high student transportation costs stand to lose financially under the funding formula ...
Stabilizing Georgia’s Health System Tops 2017 Legislative To-do List
Taifa Smith Butler
January 10, 2017
As published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution A reeling state health care system. Chronically underfunded public schools. Working ...
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