August 3, 2012
By Mike Klein What’s in the Maryland water? A student performance analysis that contains encouraging news about Georgia also leads to the inescapable conclusion that Maryland has really gotten its […]
August 3, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination […]
August 3, 2012
By Mary Chambers Our favorite sports movies often arise out of stories of hardship: the athletes who were told they couldn’t or shouldn’t play but proved everyone wrong. All of these […]
July 30, 2012
By Mike Klein Health care policy is a complex beast with seemingly intractable political positions, lots of data to support or refute almost anyone’s perspective, tons of financial impact analysis […]
July 27, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “All of the progress that the U.S. has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from […]
July 25, 2012
By Benita Dodd Health Policy Briefs: July 24, 2012 – What’s in YOUR wallet? Health care expert Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, is a frequent contributor to Forbes magazine and […]
July 20, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” – T.S. Eliot – “But […]
July 19, 2012
By Eric Wearne Events move quickly in the world of online learning. As an example of how fast: online learning platform Coursera was founded in 2012. Georgia Tech announced a partnership with Coursera this […]
July 18, 2012
By Mike Klein One challenge in almost every policy discussion is how to make the numbers mean something. So, let’s hope these numbers mean something. The annual cost to fully […]
July 17, 2012
By Benita Dodd Health Policy Briefs: July 17, 2012 – What’s in a name? Another regulatory slugfest: The Generic Pharmaceutical Association is urging the Federal Drug Administration to apply the same […]
July 16, 2012
By Mike Klein There is a tendency here in Georgia to consider that school choice is an open question. This is particularly true because of the high stakes – you […]
July 13, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” […]
June 29, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw – “And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can […]
June 28, 2012
By Mike Klein Governor Nathan Deal expressed displeasure with the U.S. Supreme Court decision on federal health care reform during a Thursday afternoon news conference, describing it as “the largest […]
June 28, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has voted 5-4 to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act federal health care reform law. This means the individual mandate survives. There are questions […]
June 28, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has voted 5-4 to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act federal health care reform law. This means the individual mandate survives. There are questions […]
June 26, 2012
By James P. Kelly Parents, concerned citizens and business leaders in Georgia are embracing educational freedom. They no longer have to rely on an inefficient, unresponsive and costly public school […]
June 26, 2012
(The Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute released this Issue Analysis that discusses the impact of federal banking laws in Georgia.) By John Berlau Few states […]
June 26, 2012
Few states have been hit as hard by the financial crisis as Georgia. With her economic engine humming along and unemployment hovering around 5 percent for several years until 2008, […]
June 22, 2012
It’s Friday! – Register now! Monday is the deadline for the Foundation’s noon Policy Briefing Luncheon and Book Forum on Wednesday, June 27. The event, “The Road to Freedom,” takes place […]
June 19, 2012
By Mike Klein A new national higher education report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says universities and technical colleges nationwide fail to provide the basic information students need to […]
June 18, 2012
By Mike Klein During the past five years there has been extensive discussion in Georgia and nationally about the relationship between prison costs and public safety. Texas and Kansas were […]
June 15, 2012
It’s Friday! – Register by Monday, June 25, for the Foundation’s noon Policy Briefing Luncheon and Book Forum on Wednesday, June 27. The event, “The Road to Freedom,” takes place […]
June 14, 2012
By Mike Klein Georgia will delay payment until next month on some $90 million in already incurred Medicaid expenses because it has run out of state funds to pay the […]
June 12, 2012
By Mike Klein Kaiser Permanente in Georgia found itself at a crossroads four years ago. The popular health services and insurance provider was being phased out as a state government […]
June 8, 2012
It’s Friday! – Register by Monday, June 25 for the Foundation’s noon Policy Briefing Luncheon on Wednesday, June 27. The event, “The Road to Freedom,” takes place at Cobb County’s […]
June 8, 2012
By Benita M. Dodd Given the wall-to-wall coverage of the upcoming regional transportation sales tax referendum, Georgians could hardly be blamed for believing that all transportation improvement in the state, […]
June 4, 2012
The high school I attended, decades ago, was considered cutting edge technologically. The internet had just been born, and my school (a new one), was going to have six desktop […]
June 4, 2012
By Eric Wearne A recent New York Times article called into question practices resulting from tuition tax credit programs around the country, including in Georgia. That article spends a lot […]
June 1, 2012
It’s Friday! – June 27 Policy Briefing Luncheon: Register now for “The Road to Freedom,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon at Cobb County’s Georgian Club with Arthur Brooks,president of the American […]
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