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Whether you’re a policymaker exploring solutions, a student conducting research or someone just trying to learn more about the Georgia budget and fiscal policy, we produce research, analysis and testimony on a wide range of issues.
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Reckless Budget Proposal Has Unintended Consequences
+ Full Article: Reckless Budget Proposal Has Unintended ConsequencesState lawmakers are considering a misguided proposal that could help put Georgia and our entire nation on a very dangerous path. Senate Resolution 736, sponsored by Senator Cecil Staton, would call on Congress to convene a national constitutional convention to enact a balanced budget amendment and other stiff restrictions on federal spending. Similar proposals are…
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Business Subsidies
+ Full Article: Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Business SubsidiesState Support for Private Sector Remains High Georgia plans to spend about $683 million on various tax breaks and economic development programs to subsidize private businesses in the upcoming 2015 fiscal year. This high level of support for Georgia’s private sector is an annual recurrence. Each year, state lawmakers spend hundreds of millions of dollars…
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education
+ Full Article: Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 EducationBudget Cuts for K-12 Shrink, but Still Loom Large The $7.95 billion budget proposal for public education in the state’s 2015 fiscal year makes a down payment to eliminate the austerity cut in state funding for schools. Most districts should be able to restore the school calendar to the 180-day standard next year. However, most…
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year for Medicaid and PeachCare
+ Full Article: Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year for Medicaid and PeachCareThe governor’s budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year adds a net increase of $143 million more than 2014 in new state money for Georgia’s Medicaid and PeachCare programs, which are administered by the Department of Community Health. The state plans to spend $2.9 billion to pay for health care services for nearly 1.9 million…
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Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded Programs
+ Full Article: Overview: 2015 Fiscal Year Budget for Lottery-Funded ProgramsFunding for Pre-Kindergarten and HOPE Falls Short of Students’ Needs The governor’s proposed $948 million budget for the state’s lottery-funded programs in the 2015 fiscal year falls short of what is needed to provide Georgians broad access to pre-kindergarten and higher education programs. Georgia’s 20-year-old system that uses lottery proceeds to make education more affordable…
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Overview: Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Human Services Budget
+ Full Article: Overview: Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Human Services BudgetStrategic Additions Made to DHS Budget; Service Cuts Since Recession Retained The governor’s $516.1 million budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year makes strategic additions to help protect Georgia’s children and adults, but falls far short of restoring funds to pre-recession levels. The state’s spending plan makes it somewhat easier for the Department of Human…
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Overview of Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year Budget
+ Full Article: Overview of Georgia’s 2015 Fiscal Year BudgetThe $20.8 billion budget proposed for Georgia’s 2015 fiscal year projects general fund revenue growth of 4.3 percent, or $807 million more than the recently revised 2014 revenue estimate. State revenues are back to pre-recession levels, but the proposed budget still incorporates in its base several billion dollars in program cuts made during the past…
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New State Budget Plan Takes Small Steps to Repair Damage from Years of Cuts
+ Full Article: New State Budget Plan Takes Small Steps to Repair Damage from Years of CutsGeorgia Gov. Nathan Deal Wednesday unveiled a state budget for the 2015 fiscal year that includes $807 million in new revenues. That money will be allocated for: Allocation Amount Partial Restoration of K-12 Education Formula Austerity Cut $314 million Medicaid and PeachCare Growth $170 million K-12 and Higher Education Formula Growth $151 million State Employees/Teachers…
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Tax Shift Plans Front and Center at GBPI’s Jan. 8 Policy Conference
+ Full Article: Tax Shift Plans Front and Center at GBPI’s Jan. 8 Policy ConferenceGeorgia’s tax system has needed a tune up for years. But brewing plans for a drastic overhaul threaten to do much more harm than good. A cadre of Georgia lawmakers and activists is pushing to drastically change how our state funds its public needs and, in the process, critically undermine our state’s ability to thrive…
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