May 14, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 15, 2026
While the early hours of April 3 marked the official adjournment of the 2026 legislative session, its true coda took place this week. On the governor’s final day to sign […]
Topic: Social Security
April 24, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 24, 2026
Georgia’s education debate often centers on school choice and funding, but important changes are happening inside the classroom too. This week’s commentary looks at one of the most foundational challenges […]
April 16, 2026 • Commentary
In Recognition of Tax Day: Why Congress Avoids the Hardest Math in Washington
Washington’s biggest fiscal problem isn’t hard to see—it’s that the fastest-growing costs are also the hardest for Congress to confront.
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.
November 17, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 17, 2023
Education leaders have descended upon Atlanta for ExcelInEd’s National Summit on Education.
June 1, 2023 • Commentary
HSAs for state employees would have benefited employees and taxpayers
Gov. Brian Kemp recently vetoed legislation that would have made health savings accounts available to state employees.
April 8, 2021 • Savannah Morning News
Analyzing Senate Bill 202
The 2021 legislative session is over, and the most-discussed legislation concerned election reform. While dozens of these bills were introduced, only Senate Bill 202 cleared both chambers. Gov. Brian Kemp […]
August 14, 2020
Friday Facts: August 14, 2020
It’s Friday! The 2020 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum has passed the halfway mark. Find information and registration for upcoming sessions: August 18: “Affordable Housing or Housing Affordability?” August 25: “Healthcare: […]
October 25, 2019
Friday Facts: October 25, 2019
It’s Friday! Events November 15: The agenda is online for the 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, which features nearly two dozen policy experts and leaders on issues affecting Georgia: education, […]
April 26, 2019
Friday Facts: April 25, 2019
It’s Friday! Events May 23: “You Can Say That: How Courage Can Defeat Political Correctness,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon with David French of the National Review Institute, on Thursday, […]
March 1, 2019
Baby Steps in Teacher Pension Reform
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The implication is that the first step won’t be the last. That’s the right way to think […]
June 15, 2018
Friday Facts: June 15, 2018
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.” […]
June 8, 2018
Friday Facts: June 8, 2018
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Paying people to make it easy not to work – and thus languish for a lifetime in poverty – is not compassionate. It’s destructive of […]
September 1, 2017
Friday Facts: September 1, 2017
It’s Friday! Events: Early Bird Registration is now open for the 2017 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum on Friday, October 13 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel. The theme for the daylong […]
August 13, 2016
Guide to the Issues: Pension Reform
Principles: Any reforms to pensions should consider the long-term solvency of a plan and protect the already promised benefits for employees already in the system. The benefits in a public […]
August 5, 2016
Friday Facts: August 5, 2016
It’s Friday! Then and Now: In 1991, when the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was established, Georgia poultry plants were in their ninth consecutive year of record-setting production: 867.3 million […]
May 27, 2014
Checking Up On Health: May 27, 2014
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd According to protocol: How will already-busy emergency departments handle the extra business coming their way under ObamaCare, physician Peter Ubel […]
February 27, 2014
Why the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Is Bad for Taxpayers and Patients
By Nina Owcharenko Medicaid needs reform, not expansion. This federal–state health care program provides health care to over 60 million Americans and consumes a growing portion of state and federal […]
January 11, 2013
FBI Fingerprint Checks Could Make Day Care Safer for Kids
Georgia has tens of thousands of non-director-level day care staff that work in thousands of facilities. Stronger laws could improve what we know about most of them, including whether they […]
January 8, 2013
Checking Up On Health: January 8, 2013
Health Policy Briefs Compiled By Benita M. Dodd Happy New Year! What if you don’t want Medicare? That’s too bad, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, which on Monday turned […]
October 5, 2012
Washington is Gambling With Our Money. And Losing.
I know something about taking risks. Calculated risks. In 2009, I followed my heart and quit a lucrative job that I loved and held for 14 years —trading equity derivatives. […]
September 4, 2012
Checking Up On Health: September 4, 2012
Health Policy Briefs Compiled by Benita M. Dodd On common ground: The Galen Institute held a forum at last week’s Republican National Convention; the panel that included Georgia’s two physician […]
June 5, 2012
Checking Up on Health
By Benita M. Dodd June 5, 2012 – Doomed to failure: Health insurance exchanges required in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) won’t work, won’t increase access to affordable […]
May 1, 2012
Checking Up on Health
Health Policy Briefs: May 1, 2012 Compiled by Benita Dodd Health care reform in remission: If it seems to you that health care policy is in limbo, you’re right. Most […]
April 13, 2012
Friday Facts: April 13th, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Government has an important role in helping develop a country’s economic foundation. But the critical test is whether government is genuinely working to […]
April 4, 2012
Tax Freedom Day — The Feeling of Not So Much Freedom
By Mike Klein There is this idea out there that the country has a tax code. Actually, it has a tax obstacle course. It is almost impossible to decipher the […]
March 30, 2012
The Final Breath From This Year’s General Assembly
By Mike Klein The final breath has been drawn by this year’s Georgia General Assembly. Here is what lawmakers did on seven issues that are closely tracked by the Georgia […]
November 14, 2011
Deal, Olens Welcome Supreme Court Health Care Review
Governor Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens issued strong statements on Monday in support of overturning federal health care reform, just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court […]
July 29, 2011
Folks Could Get Run Over When Debt Limit Rubber Meets the Road
Chances are extremely high that you know someone who receives Social Security or Medicaid or unemployment compensation or another federal benefit payment. If so, they may be scared. More than […]
December 17, 2010
Reform lacking in Feds’ Medicaid Vision
By Nina Owcharenko Recent coverage of the proposals offered by President Obama’s debt commission managed to gloss over a huge issue that is adding to the nation’s deficit – Medicaid. The impact […]
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