Reports
Overview of Georgia’s 2023 Fiscal Year Budget
Danny Kanso
January 21, 2022
Powered by unprecedented federal support to mitigate the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Kemp’s ...
State of Education Funding (2022)
Stephen Owens
January 6, 2022
This report offers an assessment of the state of education funding in Georgia by analyzing how it compares ...
Unjust Revenue from an Imbalanced Criminal Legal System: How Georgia’s Fines and Fees Worsen Racial Inequity
Ray Khalfani
December 16, 2021
Key Takeaways: Georgia’s poor governance of fines and fees revenue practices has allowed many economically underperforming localities to ...
A Need-Based Financial Aid Program for Georgia
Jennifer Lee
November 2, 2021
Key Takeaways Georgia can raise educational achievement through a need-based grant for college students, which ...
Reimagining Revenue: How Georgia’s Tax Code Contributes to Racial and Economic Inequality
Danny Kanso
October 6, 2021
You can download the Reimagining Revenue fact sheet here. Executive Summary From the 18th century to ...
Districts Turn to Federal Money to Fill Holes Made by the State: Results from GBPI’s 2021 School District Survey
Stephen Owens
August 23, 2021
This report was co-authored by Allie Schneider, Southern Education Foundation Policy Fellow Key Takeaways: 93 percent ...
Betting on our Future: Results from Pre-K Survey on Lottery Funding, Effects of COVID-19
Stephen Owens
May 5, 2021
This report was co-authored by Stephen Owens, Ph.D, Senior Policy Analyst & Denae Clowers, Policy Intern ...
Sine Die: Overview of Georgia’s 2022 Fiscal Year Budget
Danny Kanso
April 9, 2021
Bolstered by billions of dollars in unprecedented support from the federal government, Georgia lawmakers enacted a ...
Georgia Tax Breaks Don’t Deliver
Danny Kanso
February 26, 2021
This policy report is coauthored by Danny Kanso, Senior Tax & Budget Policy Analyst & Alex ...
Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
Laura Harker
February 12, 2021
Gov. Brian Kemp’s fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget proposal increases funding for the Department of Behavioral ...
Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections
Ray Khalfani
February 8, 2021
For Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a $1.12 billion budget for the Georgia ...
Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Public Health
Laura Harker
February 5, 2021
Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a 2022 budget of $269.8 million in state general funds for the ...