Topic: Washington

September 23, 2011

Friday Facts: September 23rd, 2011

It’s Friday!   – Space is limited! Don’t miss the second annual Georgia Legislative Policy Briefing on Friday, Sept. 30, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Register now for the daylong event, […]

August 26, 2011

Friday Facts: August 26th, 2011

It’s Friday! Quotations – “We are fast verging to anarchy & confusion! … They are determined to annihilate all debts public & private, and have Agrarian Laws, which are easily […]

August 11, 2011

Michelle Rhee: No Child Left Behind Not a Total Bust

Michelle Rhee, the innovative founder of StudentsFirst and former chancellor of Washington, D.C. public schools, spoke about the new Obama administration No Child Left Behind waivers when she appeared on […]




March 18, 2011

Friday Facts: March 18th, 2011

It’s Friday!  Quotations – “The best thing we can do for democracy in the world, in my view now, is get our own fiscal house in order. If we don’t do […]


December 3, 2010

Friday Facts: December 3rd, 2010

  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, […]


July 30, 2010

Friday Facts: July 30th, 2010

It’s Friday!     Quotable – “Facebook now has more than 500 million users, which may help explain why unemployment is around 10 percent.” – Jimmy Kimmel – “Would it not be […]

July 23, 2010

Friday Facts: July 23rd, 2010

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 […]

February 5, 2010

Shifting the Health Care Debate from Irate to Ideas

By Ronald E. Bachman  Americans are clearly angry about the policies and politics of Washington, D.C., and the Tea Party movement has led the way, uniting the silent majority and […]


July 10, 2009

State Tax Incentives a Bad Business

By Phred Barnet Giving a tax incentive to a business to encourage economic development sounds like a great idea, but it is not. Tax breaks for businesses are little more […]


February 17, 2006

Telework: Transporting Workers into a Global Economy

Just a dozen years ago it was considered avant garde for an organization to allow employees to work from home. Today, increasing numbers of employees are quietly migrating away from […]

June 27, 2003

Metro Motorists Pay When State Doesn’t

By Benita M. Dodd Driving on metro Atlanta’s roads is reminiscent of that fifties fad in which college students staged elaborate contests to squeeze the most people into a phone […]

April 11, 2003

How New Car Dealers Put the Brakes on Competition

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 […]


January 24, 2003

The Atlanta Water Privatization: What Can We Learn?

Your contract is only as strong as the monitoring, reporting, and direct oversight that is built into it. By Geoffrey F. Segal I. Context In 1997, the City of Atlanta privatized […]

May 1, 2000

Expanding Health Insurance Coverage in Georgia

William S. Custer There are two primary reasons why the number of Georgians without health insurance is an important public policy issue.  First, there is a public health concern that lack […]

March 15, 2000

Sales Taxes and the E-Commerce Revolution

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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