Topic: Georgia

October 30, 2025 • Blog

The government policies haunting Georgia

You may be surprised to learn that the most frightening forces in Georgia aren’t hiding under beds or behind masks.

October 24, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 24, 2025

Although the public health emergency ended more than two years ago, these “enhanced” subsidies remain in place.

October 17, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 17, 2025

Here’s a simple idea: if a Georgia public school has an open seat, any Georgia student should be able to take it.

October 16, 2025 • Commentary

Georgia needs to improve public school choice

Weak open-enrollment laws strand families in their assigned schools and even withhold basic information—including where the available seats are. 

October 10, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 10, 2025

Georgia has made strong progress in lowering its income tax, but we must go further.


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. 

September 26, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 26, 2025

What we can say for certain is that tax policy should encourage work, saving, and investment — not punish it.

September 25, 2025 • Commentary

Do the rich pay their “fair share”?

“The rich don’t pay their fair share” is a claim repeated so often that it has become a cliché. 

September 19, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 19, 2025

Since schools closed in March 2020, student absenteeism has surged, and the habit of attending school every day has been slow to return. 


September 12, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 12, 2025

Georgia's ranking in the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Education Freedom Report Card dropped this year. Why?

September 10, 2025 • Blog

Calhoun tiny house advocates score legal win

A local nonprofit challenging the City of Calhoun’s ban on homes smaller than 1,150 square feet won an initial legal victory.

September 5, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 5, 2025

Georgians are facing a hard truth about housing: When government ties up supply, prices soar.

September 4, 2025 • Commentary

How Georgia can fix its housing shortage

Georgians are facing a hard truth about housing: when government ties up supply, prices soar. And homeownership slips further out of reach.

August 29, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 29, 2025

Labor Day is a time to celebrate the American worker. But it’s also a time to ask ourselves: What state is doing the best job of putting workers first?





August 8, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 8, 2025

In its inaugural year, the Georgia Promise Scholarship has lived up to its name—offering real promise to thousands of families across the state.


August 1, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 1, 2025

Georgia is adding people faster than it’s adding places for them to live. 





July 25, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 25, 2025

On July 17, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced the creation of the Georgia Senate Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s Income Tax


July 18, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 18, 2025

In this year’s legislative session, Georgia had an opportunity to address its ever-growing regulatory code and reduce regulatory burdens placed on its citizens
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