Reports

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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year for Medicaid and PeachCare

The governor’s budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year adds a net increase of $143 million more than ...
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs

Funding for Pre-Kindergarten and HOPE Falls Short of Students’ Needs The governor’s proposed $948 million budget for the ...
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Overview: Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Human Services Budget

Strategic Additions Made to DHS Budget; Service Cuts Since Recession Retained The governor’s $516.1 million budget proposal for ...
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Overview of Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Budget

The $20.8 billion budget proposed for Georgia’s 2015 fiscal year projects general fund revenue growth of 4.3 percent, ...
Holding-Child (1) Author

Recovery or Bust: Georgia’s Poor Left Behind

More Georgians are living on the desperate side of the federal poverty line than at any time in ...
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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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State of Working Georgia 2013

Georgians Struggle to Emerge from Shadow of Great Recession Georgia is still sputtering in the shadow of the ...
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Georgians with Disabilities Miss Out on $92 Million in Federal Grants

As the number of Georgians with disabilities grew over the last four years, funding that could have helped ...
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The Schoolhouse Squeeze

State Cuts, Plunging Property Values Pinch School Districts Georgia’s school districts are struggling against a relentless financial squeeze. ...
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Tax Shift Plans Threaten Georgia’s Future

Proposals Would Hurt Families, Businesses, Communities and the Economy Currently in vogue in several states, plans to drastically ...
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Georgia Budget Primer 2014

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) is pleased to present its Georgia Budget Primer 2014, a guide ...
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GBPI 2014 Primer: Human Services

Georgia’s spending to help children, the poor and seniors is overseen by the state Department of Human Services, ...

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