May 12, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 12, 2023
Last week’s release of eighth grade U.S. history and civics tests delivered another round of bad news for students and schools.
Topic: Brian Kemp
April 28, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 28, 2023
This week, the Foundation welcomed The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon to Atlanta for our annual Georgia Freedom Dinner. It was great to see so many friends and I appreciate everyone […]
April 20, 2023 • Blog
Georgia to eliminate barriers to work in state government
Georgia lawmakers recognize that some jobs that require a four-year degree… might not actually require a four-year degree.
April 7, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 7, 2023
It’s Friday! With housing costs putting a strain on home seekers in Georgia and throughout the country, renting is an increasingly feasible option for individuals and families as they try […]
April 5, 2023 • Commentary
Looking back at the 2023 session
For a one-word description of Georgia’s 2023 legislative session, which ended just after midnight this past Wednesday, one could hardly improve on “almost.”
March 31, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 31, 2023
It’s Friday! It takes 120 votes to pass a bill through the General Assembly: 29 or more in the Senate, and 91 or more in the House. In the waning […]
March 30, 2023 • Commentary
What is the future of school choice in Georgia?
There is no good reason for school choice not to be a bipartisan priority.
March 24, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 24, 2023
It’s Friday! Any hope of reforming the state’s regulatory system for approving new healthcare facilities in 2023 appears to be effectively dead with only two legislative days remaining in the […]
March 24, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of March 20
A recap of the eleventh week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
March 20, 2023
Economic Report on Georgia’s Certificate of Need Program
Despite their inception nearly fifty years ago, ongoing questions about cost, access and the role of community healthcare remain.
March 17, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of March 13
A recap of the tenth week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
March 17, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 17, 2023
It’s Friday! The Senate Committee on Economic Development and Tourism advanced House Bill 514 this week, legislation limiting the ability of local governments to enact moratoriums on building new housing to no […]
March 15, 2023 • Commentary
New tax reform on the horizon?
There has been much talk about getting to a zero income tax to match neighboring Florida and Tennessee, or just lowering the rate to remain competitive.
March 10, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 10, 2023
It’s Friday! The Georgia legislature has advanced two issues that lawmakers have been debating under the Gold Dome for years. In some cases, decades. Senate Bill 99, sponsored by Sen. […]
March 10, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of March 6
A recap of the ninth week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
March 3, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 3, 2023
It’s Friday! We are in the heart of the legislative session, with only 13 days left on the calendar. And on Monday, we will hit our first major deadline of […]
February 24, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 24, 2023
It’s Friday! Craft brewing is a cultural phenomenon that has progressed from a niche hobby to a ubiquitous growing industry for many Americans over the course of only a few […]
February 22, 2023 • Commentary
Georgia’s cautious handling of unexpected budget windfall the right approach
Failing to plan for revenues to come back to earth has bitten states like California, which spent heavily last year and now have a $20 billion budget shortfall.
February 15, 2023 • Blog
Time to reform Certificate of Need laws
The debate over Georgia’s “certificate of need” laws has raged since the 1980s. Could this be the year lawmakers finally resolve it?
February 10, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 10, 2023
It’s Friday! As rising housing costs continue to frustrate developers and buyers, it remains important for citizens to understand what goes into those costs – especially if they seem arbitrary or unnecessarily […]
February 8, 2023 • Commentary
Kemp’s Georgia Pathways will soon be launched
Georgia Pathways means better access to care and lower financial risk for taxpayers than Medicaid expansion.
February 3, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 3, 2023
It’s Friday! There once was a time when comedy was something that could bring people together. It was the job of comedians and satirists to mock and ridicule our largest […]
February 2, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of January 30
A recap of the fourth week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
January 27, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of January 23
A recap of the third week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
January 26, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 27, 2023
It’s Friday! As Georgia celebrates National School Choice Week, the legislature is already looking to expand the tax credit scholarship program. And other proposals might move forward that give parents […]
January 26, 2023 • Commentary
School choice would benefit rural students in Georgia
Education choice policies expand educational opportunity for rural families while spurring rural district schools to improve their performance.
January 25, 2023 • Commentary
Taxpayer-funded benefits should be for those that are supposed to receive them
Why are some likely to lose Medicaid coverage?
January 24, 2023 • Blog
Georgia’s expensive rural broadband project
Feds insist government-funded broadband will transform Georgia’s rural and poor communities.
January 20, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 20, 2023
It’s Friday! Georgia lawmakers brought a tax reform package across the finish line in 2022 that will change the state’s progressive income tax to a 5.49% flat tax beginning in […]
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