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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Business Subsidies

State Support for Private Sector Remains High Georgia plans to spend about $683 million on various tax breaks ...
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education

Budget Cuts for K-12 Shrink, but Still Loom Large The $7.95 billion budget proposal for public education in ...
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year for Medicaid and PeachCare

The governor’s budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year adds a net increase of $143 million more than ...
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs

Funding for Pre-Kindergarten and HOPE Falls Short of Students’ Needs The governor’s proposed $948 million budget for the ...
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Overview: Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Human Services Budget

Strategic Additions Made to DHS Budget; Service Cuts Since Recession Retained The governor’s $516.1 million budget proposal for ...
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Overview of Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Budget

The $20.8 billion budget proposed for Georgia’s 2015 fiscal year projects general fund revenue growth of 4.3 percent, ...
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New State Budget Plan Takes Small Steps to Repair Damage from Years of Cuts

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Wednesday unveiled a state budget for the 2015 fiscal year that includes $807 million ...
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K-12 education funding a top priority

As published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on January 12, 2014. Georgia’s leaders are talking about increasing spending on ...
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Policy Conference Sets High Bar for GBPI’s 10th Anniversary Year

(View the presentation slides included in the breakout workshops) About 200 people gathered Wednesday for our 2014 Policy ...
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General Assembly Set to Race Through Budget Hearings

By all accounts we can look forward to a historically fast Georgia legislative session this year. The governor’s ...
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Higher Ed Funding, Completion Rates Focus of GBPI Policy Conference Panels

Performance funding for higher education is coming to Georgia. Beginning fall 2015, state funding for the university system ...
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Teacher Prep, Charter Schools Focus of GBPI 2014 Policy Conference

In the midst of fierce debates about ways to improve public education, there is consensus on one issue: ...

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