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Performance Funding: An Opportunity to Improve Student Outcomes

Funding for the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia will be based entirely ...
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Teacher Preparation: A New Direction

Many teacher preparation programs do not fully prepare teacher candidates to be effective in the classroom. A new ...
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Tax Shift Could Hit Most Georgia Seniors with a Tax Increase

Plans to drastically cut or abolish state income taxes and replace them with higher sales taxes are gaining ...
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Tax Shift Proposals Would Hurt Georgia Schools

Plans to drastically cut or abolish state income taxes and replace them with higher sales taxes are gaining ...
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Georgia should tally cost, benefit of business tax breaks

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute’s Executive Director Alan Essig says the state should take a more business-like ...
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High Unemployment Among Georgia’s Many Workforce Challenges

As we move closer toward another legislative session and heated election season, Georgia’s economy is sure to become ...
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New report: “Cutting Class to Make Ends Meet”

This summer the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute contacted superintendents from all 180 of the state’s school districts ...
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Cutting Class to Make Ends Meet

Georgia’s public schools are at a tipping point. School districts are coping with state funding cuts in recent ...
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Medicaid Expansion: Addressing Health Disparities and Improving Access to Care

Presentation: Tim Sweeney, Director of Health Policy,  Georgia Budget & Policy InstituteOctober 31, 2013 | The Carter Center ...
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Rural Georgians Stand to Benefit Most from Medicaid Expansion

More than 140,000 uninsured Georgians in rural communities could get health coverage through Medicaid in 2014 if Georgia ...
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Georgia Families Lose Food Assistance, Bigger Threat Looms

More than 1.9 million Georgians, including more than one in three Georgia children, are more likely to go ...
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GBPI’s Annual Guide to How the Economy Affects Working Georgians

Most Georgia families still struggle to emerge from the long shadow of the Great Recession. Unemployment remains high, ...

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