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Reshuffling Income Tax Rates is a Faulty Economic Formula
State legislators are considering a package of income tax changes in the final days of the 2017 session that could…
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Private School Scholarship Savings Claims Deserve Skepticism
State lawmakers are considering a big expansion of the private school scholarship tax credit program. House Bill 217 proposes to…
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Misguided March to Expand Tax Credits for Private School Scholarships
The Georgia Senate is considering a plan to expand the state’s private school scholarship tax credit program after the House…
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Immigrant ID Bills Amount to $1 Million in Waste
One Senate bill and two House bills threaten to waste more than $1 million in state taxpayer dollars to change…
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GBPI Letter to Governor Outlines Pitfalls of Medicaid Caps, Block Grants
In a letter delivered today to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute outlined likely negative consequences…
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Filling the Gaping Hole in Public School Budgets
State funding for Georgia’s public schools went up $1.5 billion from fiscal year 2014 to 2017 and is set to…
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Lawmakers, Policy Experts Draw a Crowd at GBPI’s Insights 2017
The largest crowd to attend a Georgia Budget and Policy Institute conference gathered at Insights 2017 in downtown Atlanta Jan.…
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Georgia’s Economy at Risk if Affordable Care Act Repealed
Earlier this month the U.S. Congress passed a budget resolution in the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).…
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Stabilizing Georgia’s Health System Tops 2017 Legislative To-do List
As published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution A reeling state health care system. Chronically underfunded public schools. Working families and…
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