Topic: Effingham County

July 24, 2026 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 24, 2026

Restrictive licensing practices and regulatory barriers frequently prevent qualified and trained workers from participating in the workforce. This is true in Georgia as elsewhere, but a few bills passed in […]

November 28, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: November 28, 2025

This Thanksgiving, we once again pause for a moment to give thanks for our many blessings.

October 3, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 3, 2025

Georgia has made important progress, but more reforms are needed to ensure residents in rural and underserved communities receive the care they deserve.

April 18, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: April 18, 2025

No session comes and goes without some measure of disappointment. This year, Georgia had an opportunity to join other states in passing regulatory reform.

July 12, 2024 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 12, 2024

A new policy brief analyzes how Georgia’s health insurance landscape has improved since Gov. Kemp took office in 2019

December 1, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: December 1, 2023

When deciding what people value when deciding where to live, work and raise a family, people and businesses tend to favor states with low taxes.

September 8, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 8, 2023

It's time to support a return to the appropriate division of labor between Washington, D.C. and the states.

June 15, 2023 • Blog

Georgia officials get more daring with waste, fraud and abuse

By Chris Butler

The latest stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

March 1, 2023 • Blog

School choice programs would provide fiscal savings for public school districts

By School choice programs would provide fiscal savings for public school districts

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has updated our estimates of the fiscal savings for public school districts associated with school choice programs.

February 6, 2023

Development Impact Fees: Trends and Impact on the Community

By Tyler Webb

While impact fees are a tool to help defray the costs of infrastructure needed to support new development, they are also an additional housing cost.

October 28, 2022 • Commentary

Foundation Study Examines Georgia’s Development Impact Fees

By J. Thomas Perdue

Our latest study is a comprehensive examination of development impact fees and revenues throughout the state.

October 27, 2022

Assessment of Georgia Development Impact Fees

By Chris Denson Tyler Webb

A comprehensive list of development impact fees in Georgia with examinations of single-family and multifamily rates.

December 17, 2015

Could Georgia Education Funding Reform Impact Achievement?

The very first recommendation in the final report from the Georgia Education Reform Commission was this: Develop a student-based funding formula. What does this mean? According to education experts from the Reason […]