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How Squeezed is Your District?
Claire Suggs
September 8, 2014
The Schoolhouse Squeeze 2014 compiles the latest numbers to show how cuts at the state level and lost ...
The Schoolhouse Squeeze 2014
Claire Suggs
September 4, 2014
State Cuts, Lost Property Values Still Pinch School Districts Georgia’s 180 school districts continue to face enormous financial ...
Marriage Equality is Good for Business in Georgia
Alan Essig
August 29, 2014
Creating marriage equality in Georgia is not just a matter of basic justice and fairness, but according to ...
State of Working Georgia 2014
Wesley Tharpe
August 27, 2014
Workers Squeezed by Tough Labor Market, Shrinking Paychecks Georgia’s economy has improved markedly since the darkest days of ...
Georgia Workers Deserve an Economy That Works for Them
Wesley Tharpe
August 27, 2014
Like many Georgians I grew up in a family hanging on tightly to the middle rungs of the ...
Making KIDS COUNT Every Year
Taifa Smith Butler
August 21, 2014
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its ...
New Report: Georgia’s Medicaid Opposition to Cost $34 Billion
Timothy Sweeney
August 14, 2014
Georgia’s refusal to expand Medicaid to cover more than 500,000 uninsured people will cost the state’s health care ...
State Closes Fiscal Year with Sluggish 2014 Revenues
Alan Essig
August 14, 2014
Georgia’s revenues grew 4.8 percent for the 2014 fiscal year that ended June 30. Such growth is well ...
Georgia Health Coverage Rate Trails 47 States
Timothy Sweeney
August 8, 2014
Adults in Georgia are more likely to go without health coverage than people in all but two other ...
Keep Working Families Top of Mind for Georgia’s Future
Taifa Smith Butler
August 7, 2014
A worker who earned $32,000 to $58,000 a year when the recession hit in 2007 was much more ...
Georgia Budget Primer 2015
GBPI Admin
August 6, 2014
GBPI is proud to publish the latest edition of our annual comprehensive analysis of the state’s financial blueprint, ...
New GBPI Budget Primer Tells Story of Shortchanged Citizenry
Alan Essig
August 6, 2014
GBPI is proud today to publish the latest edition of our annual comprehensive analysis of the state’s financial ...
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