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Inflation hits 30-year high as holiday season nears | Center Square
The prices of everyday goods are getting increasingly more expensive, new federal data confirm. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of…
The Georgia Center for Opportunity has signed on to a letter in favor of the EQUAL Act
The Georgia Center for Opportunity has signed on to a letter with 37 organizations across the ideological spectrum in favor of the…
Promote Purchasing Power—Not the Minimum Wage
How to help working families the most During a focus group session on working class families we recently conducted at…
Get Buzz’d Heads to Austin for the Heritage Foundation’s Resource Bank Conference
Get Buzz’d in Austin, Texas at the Heritage Foundation Resource Bank Conference Buzz Brockway and Eric Cochling talk about their…
Benefiting Low-Wage Workers without Minimum Wage Laws
Strategies to help everyone If it is a bad idea to raise the minimum wage, or even have a minimum…
Why the Minimum Wage is Bad News for Small Business
Why that’s bad for everyone else, and how raising costs can have disastrous economic consequences. In a prior blog, I…
Let’s Take Politics Out of Healthcare
The federal government’s surprise move against Georgia In a raw political move, the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS)…
Does the Minimum Wage Hurt or Help the Poor?
What economic research really tells us Finally, we have the definitive answer on a longstanding debate on whether empirical studies…
Op-Ed: We don’t need to rely on elections to do good in our communities
This election season has been the most rancorous of our lifetimes. Is anyone surprised? We’ve come to expect the unexpected…
How Can You Measure Welfare Program Success? Part 2
When someone needs financial help or workforce training from the government, where do they go? If we just allowed people…
How Can You Measure Welfare Program Success? Part 1
When someone needs financial help or workforce training from the government, where do they go? If we just allowed people…
Health Care Waiver Approvals Are Good News
By Erik Randolph Amidst the noise of the presidential election, the mainstream news media missed a major announcement the prior…
Op-Ed: It’s time for Georgia to reign in policing for profit
Much needed conversations are happening in recent weeks across Georgia and our nation on policing reforms. One practical area of…
The Best Administrative Structure for Welfare
When someone needs financial help or workforce training from the government, where do they go? If we just allowed people…
The Top 5 Recommendations to the Feds on Economic Mobility
If you had the opportunity to tell federal agencies what they need to do to help low-income people improve their…
Welfare Cliffs Exist—Concludes Team of Economists
Since 2016, the Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) has demonstrated the existence of welfare cliffs. Now a team of five…
Safeguarding the Economy is Paramount for Everyone’s Well-Being
Safeguarding the Economy is Paramount for Everyone’s Well-Being By Erik Randolph Recent numbers in confirmed COVID-19 cases have been nothing…
Reviewing Georgia’s DOE School Reopening Guidelines
The Georgia Department of Education (DOE) last week released guidance for local Boards of Education to consider as they develop…
PRESS RELEASE: GCO signs on to federal policy recommendations to provide educational opportunity for all schoolchildren
PEACHTREE CORNERS—The Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) announced today that it has signed on to policy recommendations to Congress that…
Reopening Responsibly
Fully Reopening Georgia’s Economy Safely As stories continue to mount on the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on individuals…