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Cutting Class to Make Ends Meet 2014

Schools across Georgia continue to scramble to meet students’ needs as they cope with years of deep cuts ...

VIDEO: How GBPI Shows Georgia What’s Possible

At the Capitol, at PTA meetings and at community meetings across the state, GBPI’s experts make the case ...
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Rising Inequality Makes Tax Shift Strategy Even Riskier

The widening gap between rich and poor makes it harder for state lawmakers to fully fund education, health ...
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Taifa Butler: I Work at GBPI to Spotlight What’s Possible

This September marks my third anniversary as part of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) team. I’m ...
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Georgia Set to Squander $7.8 Million on Food Stamps ID

Georgia’s Department of Human Services is asking the state to include $7.8 million in its 2016 budget to ...
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Medicaid Expansion a Shot in the Arm for Coastal Georgia

About 50,000 uninsured Georgians in the 10-county Coastal Georgia region could get guaranteed health coverage if Georgia accepts ...
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How Squeezed is Your District?

The Schoolhouse Squeeze 2014 compiles the latest numbers to show how cuts at the state level and lost ...
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The Schoolhouse Squeeze 2014

State Cuts, Lost Property Values Still Pinch School Districts Georgia’s 180 school districts continue to face enormous financial ...
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Marriage Equality is Good for Business in Georgia

Creating marriage equality in Georgia is not just a matter of basic justice and fairness, but according to ...
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State of Working Georgia 2014

Workers Squeezed by Tough Labor Market, Shrinking Paychecks Georgia’s economy has improved markedly since the darkest days of ...
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Georgia Workers Deserve an Economy That Works for Them

Like many Georgians I grew up in a family hanging on tightly to the middle rungs of the ...
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Making KIDS COUNT Every Year

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its ...

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