Topic: Public policy

October 15, 2021 • Foundation News

2021 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, Rx for What Ails the State

The past year has been a public policy whirlwind, with COVID-19 affecting where we work and how our children get an education, a winter deep freeze in the Deep


October 8, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 8, 2021

A public service that made its debut in 1996 thanks to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was the innovative Report Card on Georgia’s public schools, highligh

October 1, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 1, 2021

In 2006, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation published a transportation study: “Reducing Congestion in Atlanta: A Bold New Approach to Increasing Mobility.”


September 24, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 24, 2021

Thirty years of Policy Over Politics: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary on September 16 at the Georgia Aquarium with nearly 2

September 24, 2021 • Commentary

Economic Freedom: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

COVID-19’s impact is not yet evident in the 2021 “Economic Freedom of the World” report by Canada’s Fraser Institute published September 14.

September 17, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 17, 2021

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation marked 30 years of “Changing Georgia Policy, Changing Georgians’ Lives” with a dinner celebration Thursday night at the Geo

September 15, 2021 • Foundation News

Failure by Institution

President Joe Biden this past week said federal agencies will begin requiring employers with as few as 100 employees to mandate their workers get vaccinated aga

September 10, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 10, 2021

A sign painted on the hillside campus of Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School along U.S. 23 in Rabun County is one of many across Georgia and around the nation to commem

September 3, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 03, 2021

In less than two weeks, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary with a September 16 event at the Georgia Aquarium.

August 27, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 27, 2021

The mayor of Orlando has asked city residents to conserve water to help preserve liquid oxygen for medical use for covid patients, according to NBC News. Liquid

August 20, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 20, 2021

One of the founding principles of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation is to limit the role of government in the lives of Georgians.

August 13, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 13, 2021

Soon after it was established in 1991, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation created the W.A.S.T.E. Award, an ignominious recognition of the Tax Day deadline tha

August 6, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 06, 2021

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s first luncheon briefing was in October 1993, two years after the Foundation was established.


July 30, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 30, 2021

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s most popular publication, the Friday Facts, has evolved over the decades from a one-page facsimile sent to the Foundation


July 23, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 23, 2021

Sometimes, the wheels of change turn exceedingly slow. As early as 1992 (right) – one year after the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was founded – and as recen


July 16, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 16, 2021

Housing affordability was one of the earliest policy challenges that drew the attention of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, as this 1992 commentary demonst

July 9, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 09, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane Experienced guide: Since 1996, the nonpartisan Georgia Public Policy Foundation has published a legislative agenda – a guide to the state’s policy challenges, with solutions aimed […]

July 2, 2021

Friday Facts: July 02, 2021

 It’s Friday!  Quotes of Note “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and […]

June 25, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: June 25, 2021

It’s Friday!  Quote of Note Obamacare’s supporters talked a lot about illnesses contributing to more than half of all bankruptcies, which implied there should have been a sharp decrease in […]

June 18, 2021

Friday Facts: June 18, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane The more things change … As Georgia prepares for reapportionment again after the 2020 Census, this 1992 Georgia Public Policy Foundation commentary reveals what was on […]

June 11, 2021

Friday Facts: June 11, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane Federalism, a state of independence: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has a history of defending the ability of Georgia to solve its own problems instead of […]

June 4, 2021

Friday Facts: June 04, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane A legacy of bureaucracy: The obfuscation in data from the Georgia Department of Education is a longstanding problem, as shown in this 1996 letter from the […]

May 28, 2021

Friday Facts: May 28, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane Outsource resource: As far back as 1996, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation maintained that for the city of Atlanta to prosper, “it must privatize, consolidate city […]

May 25, 2021 • Blog

Checking Up On Health: May 24, 2021

Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. A mantra you’ll hear from policy research groups is that healthcare reform in Georgia and many other […]

May 21, 2021

Friday Facts: May 21, 2021

It’s Friday!  Memory Lane Civil Discourse: For years, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation sponsored debates among Georgia’s political candidates, and – as this 1994 article on tax reform demonstrates – […]
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