Reports
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 ...
Tax Shift Plans Chart Wrong Path to Reform
Wesley Tharpe
October 14, 2015
State legislators are likely to consider large-scale changes to Georgia’s tax system when they return to work in ...
Georgia’s Workforce Development, Economy Damaged by Barriers to Higher Education for Undocumented Students
Melissa Johnson
September 29, 2015
New federal policy provides Georgia an opportunity to increase access to higher education for many young Georgia immigrants ...
Understanding Medicaid in Georgia and the Opportunity to Improve It
Timothy Sweeney
September 23, 2015
The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and Georgians for a Healthy Future today announce the joint release of ...
Georgia’s Path to School Funding Reform Reaches Crossroads
Claire Suggs
September 16, 2015
An updated version of this report is available Georgia’s effort to overhaul the formula it uses to split ...
A Bottom-Up Tax Cut to Build Georgia’s Middle Class
Wesley Tharpe
August 12, 2015
The Case for a State Earned Income Tax Credit Building a better Georgia, with a strong economy and ...
Improved Adult Education Support Critical to Georgia’s Bottom Line
Melissa Johnson
August 6, 2015
Georgia’s economic well-being is threatened by the high numbers of adults without a high school diploma or a ...


