It’s Friday! – What can you do to help the Foundation celebrate its 20th birthday in 2011? E-mail to share how you can highlight the Foundation’s “20 For 20,” campaign. Will you recommend […]
School choice champion Jay Greene's highest priority is expanding the number and quality of education choices that parents have for their children. Greene was among the group of education policy leaders from across […]
It’s Friday! Join our Forum! – If you like the Friday Facts, you’ll love the Forum. This interactive community is a series of issue-oriented blogs where you can find breaking […]
The editorial page of today's Wall Street Journal praised Georgia's proposed tax reform plan as "The Anti-Illinois." It praised the plan for following "the first principle of a sound and […]
It’s Friday! – Today is your last chance to support the Foundation and earn a 2010 tax deduction for yourself. Every dollar you invest today will be quickly put […]
Joel Klein had some interested comments in this weekend's Wall Street Journal: First, it is wrong to assert that students' poverty and family circumstances severely limit their educational potential. It's […]
It’s Friday! – Today is the deadline to register for, “ABCs+D = The Virtual Success of Digital Learning,“ a Georgia Public Policy Foundation Policy Briefing Luncheon at noon on Tuesday, […]
It’s Friday! Notable It’s not too late to register for the Georgia Legislative Policy Briefing on Saturday, Nov. 13. This daylong event features dozens of national and statewide experts on the top […]
October 29, 2010 It’s Friday! Quotable – “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” […]
It’s Friday! Quotable – “In an open economy, you will never know what is out there on the leading developmental edge of this or that industry. But the reality behind the […]
By Benita M. Dodd The free-market think tanks that focus on state policy issues often exchange and replicate their successful ideas and case studies in effective government. Reinventing the wheel […]
It’s Friday! Quotable – “There is no good reason to think the [Federal Communications Commission] should engineer electronic devices and interfaces based on its own views about what technologies and […]
It’s Friday! Quotable – “What progressives want to do is take money from some – by force – and spend it on others. It sounds less noble when plainly stated. That’s […]
It’s Friday! What’s happening at the Foundation – Mark your calendar: Saturday, Nov. 13, is the Georgia Legislative Policy Briefing, a daylong event featuring national and statewide experts on the top issues […]
It’s Friday! Notable – “When normal people hear about a budget cut, we assume the amount of money to be spent is less than the previous year’s allocation. But that’s […]
It’s Friday! Quotable – “Uncertainty is the enemy of capital formation.” – Thomas F. Cooley – “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernard Shaw Health Care – Sticker […]
It’s Friday! Quotable – “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under […]
It’s Friday! Quotable – “The king’s cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, ’tis made of the people’s milk.” – Benjamin Franklin – “According to a study by […]
James K. Glassman This talk today is timely. In Iran, as I speak, we are seeing hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting what is almost certainly a stolen election. […]
By Kelly McCutchen It was not Webvan or Pets.com this time. It was Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG and Wachovia. Gone or sold for pennies on the dollar. It was […]
Published Thursday, February 02, 2006 By Eric Wearne After losing several large employers over the course of the 1990s and realizing that their schools were not preparing their students to […]
By Newt Gingrich The nation’s health-care crisis has infected every state including Georgia, where acute symptoms have appeared. Nine percent of Georgians have spent an entire year uninsured, according to the […]
By Morgan Smith I. Summary It has been four years since Georgia legislators enacted broad changes to the state laws that regulate the relationship between auto dealers and car manufacturers. The changes have created significant benefits […]
Georgia regulators continue to micro-manage some aspects of alcohol sales that could be safely negotiated by the market’s participants themselves. By Morgan Smith I. Summary In 2001, the Georgia Legislature […]
Hans A. von Spakovsky Elected officials in Georgia and throughout the country have been expressing their concern over the possible loss of state sales tax revenues as e-commerce grows on […]
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