Reports
Slashing Income Tax Delivers Meager Benefit to Most, Jeopardizes Public Services
Wesley Tharpe
February 26, 2016
Bill Analysis: House Bill 238 (LC 34 4895S) Georgia lawmakers are considering a pair of proposals that offer ...
Overview: 2017 Fiscal Year Budget for Higher Education
Claire Suggs
February 17, 2016
Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed budget of $2.47 billion for the state’s two postsecondary systems includes money intended to ...
Another Tax Credit for Private School Scholarships
Claire Suggs
February 16, 2016
Georgia lawmakers are considering legislation to create a new tax credit for individuals and corporations that donate to ...
Overview: 2017 Fiscal Year Budget for Human Services
Melissa Johnson
February 11, 2016
Services for Georgia’s Vulnerable Get Needed Lift Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed $634 million Department of Human Services budget ...
Overview: 2017 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs
Claire Suggs
February 4, 2016
Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed budget of nearly $1.05 billion for the state’s lottery-funded programs adds money for needed ...
Overview: 2017 Budget for Department of Community Health
Timothy Sweeney
February 2, 2016
The proposed budget for the 2017 fiscal year starting July 1, 2016 directs $2.59 billion from the general ...
Overview: 2017 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education
Claire Suggs
January 27, 2016
The $8.92 billion for Georgia’s 180 public school districts in Gov. Nathan Deal’s 2017 budget proposal represents a ...
Overview of Georgia’s 2017 Fiscal Year Budget
Timothy Sweeney
January 20, 2016
The $23.7 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2017 fiscal year represents a high ...
Immigrants Help Chart Georgia’s Course to Prosperity
Wesley Tharpe
December 16, 2015
Georgia transformed over the past few decades as immigrants from around the world brought new workers, new entrepreneurs ...
Funding Committee Comes up Short
Claire Suggs
November 4, 2015
A new school funding formula Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission is developing threatens to lock in deep ...
School Districts Get Growing Tab for Student Transportation
Claire Suggs
October 27, 2015
Years of deep cuts in state student transportation funding saddle school districts with more of the cost to ...
A Tax Blueprint to Strengthen Georgia
Wesley Tharpe
October 20, 2015
[vc_row el_class=”td-ss-row”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Fixing Georgia’s Tax System Can Help Working Families and Protect the State’s Investments Reforming Georgia’s ...