January 30, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 30, 2026
The 2026 Election Hangs Over the 2026 Legislative Session
Topic: Technical College System of Georgia
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
February 19, 2025 • Blog
Staying the course is the wise thing to do
The state’s recent course of budgeting modestly and gradually trimming tax rates to avoid overcharging taxpayers has been working.
August 9, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 9, 2024
The Federal Reserve’s high interest rate policy may backfire.
March 6, 2024 • Commentary
Lawmakers avoid making long-term obligations with temporary surpluses
In total, Gov. Brian Kemp signed an amended budget for the current year that spends almost $5.5 billion more than the original plan.
February 14, 2024 • Commentary
2024 legislative session hits midpoint this week
Georgia’s 2024 legislative session hits its midpoint this week. As usual, the second half will be far more active and intense than the first.
December 15, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 15, 2023
When it comes to analyzing the available data on student outcomes for college and career academies, we found two main obstacles. What are they?
December 14, 2023 • Commentary
Are Georgia’s college and career academies meeting their goals?
To better understand the outcomes of these academies, the Foundation has recently completed a comprehensive analysis of these programs.
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.
November 30, 2023
Report on Georgia’s College and Career Academies
Executive Summary College and career academies offer unique development opportunities to Georgia’s high school students and stand to benefit local economies through the fulfillment of workforce needs. The program is […]
July 19, 2023 • Commentary
What should lawmakers do with another budget surplus?
Those who favor larger government spending are redoubling their calls to increase taxpayer-funded services, as if the good times will never end.
April 19, 2023 • Commentary
Is it a correction or a reckoning?
March revenues declined by almost $83 million, or about 3%, compared to March 2022.
February 22, 2023 • Commentary
Georgia’s cautious handling of unexpected budget windfall the right approach
Failing to plan for revenues to come back to earth has bitten states like California, which spent heavily last year and now have a $20 billion budget shortfall.
September 6, 2022 • Commentary
Learn How Much Your Georgia Degrees Pay
On Georgia Degrees Pay, students and their parents can find information about each major offered at each public university in Georgia.
January 28, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 28, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Charles de Montesquieu “How strangely will the […]
January 20, 2022 • Blog
What to Do With Revenue?
You’ve heard the saying “follow the money.” What happens when the money follows you?
November 5, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 05, 2021
Noel Khalil, founder and CEO of Columbia Residential and Columbia Ventures, died October 25 after a long illness.
July 21, 2021 • Foundation News
Surplus Boom or Bubble?
s, it’s worth remembering just how far we’ve come from a low point. The state’s revenue report this past week is such an occasion.
January 15, 2021 • Commentary
‘State of the State’ as Varied as Georgia’s Landscape
Budget hearings will begin Tuesday under the Gold Dome (and via Zoom, amid COVID-19 precautions). At his State of the State address Thursday before a joint sess
February 7, 2020 • Commentary
Pulling Back the Curtain on Georgia’s Budget Woes
Georgians are puzzled by an apparent dilemma: Why, in the middle of a booming economy and record-low unemployment, is the state government facing budget cuts?
May 30, 2019 • Press Release
2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum Speaker Biographies
Judge Steven C. Teske, Morning Keynote Speaker Judge Steven C. Teske is the Chief Judge of the Juvenile Court of the Clayton Judicial Circuit. He was appointed juvenile court judge […]
February 8, 2019
Friday Facts: February 8, 2019
It’s Friday! Honors For the second consecutive year, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has been named one of the world’s “Best Independent Think Tanks” by the University of Pennsylvania’s Think […]
September 4, 2018
2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum Agenda
The 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum is slated for Friday, September 7, 2018 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. PDF Version: Agenda 2018 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum AGENDA 7:30-8:00 Breakfast Buffet […]
August 24, 2018 • Blog
Education Innovation at the 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum
When Site Selection magazine interviewed Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal after the state’s fifth consecutive annual win as Top Business Climate in 2017, a major topic was workforce qualification. “Our graduation […]
January 23, 2018
Landmark Study on Georgia’s K-12 Options Unveiled at School Choice Week Event
Universal education choice could be just a few short years away. News Release | For Immediate Release January 23, 2018 Contact: Benita Dodd (404-256-4050) Landmark Study on Georgia’s K-12 Options Unveiled […]
January 12, 2018
A School Choice that Gets Georgia Students College- and Career-Ready
The choice of more than 32,000 Georgia students this year. By Russ Moore For the fifth year in a row, in 2017 Site Selection Magazine named Georgia the nation’s No. […]
October 21, 2016
Give Prisoners a Second Chance
By Gerard Robinson and Elizabeth English On October 12, 29 prisoners and 45 Baltimore-area experts in criminal justice congregated in the Jessup Correctional Institution library. Most were members of the […]
May 27, 2016
Memorial Day Thanks for Better Days After Battle Scars
A man of faith, Scott Rigsby works to serve both as a lesson and an example. By Benita M. Dodd Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday in May. […]
May 6, 2016
Extending the REACH of Academic Achievement
Hope and promise that can inspire students from low-income families out of poverty and into better outcomes. By Benita M. Dodd Education activists watched in dismay as education reform proposals […]
January 29, 2016
Five Reasons for Education Optimism in Georgia
Choice, standards and online learning help move Georgia students forward. By Benita M. Dodd Georgians marked National School Choice Week Jan. 24-30, a week of events highlighted by thousands of yellow […]
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