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Georgia Families Face Food Assistance Threats This Thanksgiving

As you gather with friends and family for Thanksgiving dinner this week, be aware that one in five ...
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GBPI to Kick Off 10th Anniversary Year With a Bang Jan. 8

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute’s staff worked hard the past ten years to tell stories with numbers, ...
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Tax Shift Plan Threatens Georgia

Some state lawmakers and interest groups are developing proposals designed to drastically cut or eliminate Georgia’s income tax ...
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Spotlight on Solutions to Child Hunger in Georgia

Georgia ranks 5th worst in the country when it comes to the rate of child food insecurity. The ...
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Improving College Completion: Scaling Promising Reforms

Too many students begin college but never finish. Many enter unprepared for college-level work and never get beyond ...
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The Intersection of Public Health and Economic Health

Georgia ranks near the bottom of many national measures of health status, but conditions vary significantly throughout the ...
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What Works: Moving from Poverty to Independence

In recent memory, a lot of negative attention has been focused on anti-poverty programs. A significant number of ...
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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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