Reports

Students-Desk-696x462 Claire Suggs

Overview: 2017 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education

The $8.92 billion for Georgia’s 180 public school districts in Gov. Nathan Deal’s 2017 budget proposal represents a ...
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Overview of Georgia’s 2017 Fiscal Year Budget

The $23.7 billion state budget proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal for the 2017 fiscal year represents a high ...
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Immigrants Help Chart Georgia’s Course to Prosperity

Georgia transformed over the past few decades as immigrants from around the world brought new workers, new entrepreneurs ...
Classroom-Elementary1 (1) Claire Suggs

Funding Committee Comes up Short

A new school funding formula Gov. Nathan Deal’s Education Reform Commission is developing threatens to lock in deep ...
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School Districts Get Growing Tab for Student Transportation

Years of deep cuts in state student transportation funding saddle school districts with more of the cost to ...
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A Tax Blueprint to Strengthen Georgia

[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 ...
Wallet (1) Alex Camardelle

Tax Shift Plans Chart Wrong Path to Reform

State legislators are likely to consider large-scale changes to Georgia’s tax system when they return to work in ...
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Georgia’s Workforce Development, Economy Damaged by Barriers to Higher Education for Undocumented Students

New federal policy provides Georgia an opportunity to increase access to higher education for many young Georgia immigrants ...
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Understanding Medicaid in Georgia and the Opportunity to Improve It

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and Georgians for a Healthy Future today announce the joint release of  ...
Studying (1) Claire Suggs

Georgia’s Path to School Funding Reform Reaches Crossroads

An updated version of this report is available Georgia’s effort to overhaul the formula it uses to split ...
Capitol-3- (1) Budget and Taxes

A Bottom-Up Tax Cut to Build Georgia’s Middle Class

The Case for a State Earned Income Tax Credit Building a better Georgia, with a strong economy and ...
Classroom-Elementary1 (1) K-12 Education

Improved Adult Education Support Critical to Georgia’s Bottom Line

Georgia’s economic well-being is threatened by the high numbers of adults without a high school diploma or a ...

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