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Promise Scholarships Would Help Adoptive Families Like Mine
Originally Posted in the Gwinnett Daily Post
Rural Georgia Families Need Promise Scholarships
Rural families in Georgia, like mine, don’t always have access to educational options. Promise Scholarships would fix this inequity. My…
New Research: School Students Lag Behind in Literacy Almost Two Years Into the COVID-19 Pandemic
New research brief shows that elementary school students lag behind in literacy almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic The mid-school-year…
Lockdowns Were a Failure. What We Do Next Doesn’t Have To Be.
There is new proof government-imposed shutdowns prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have done more harm than good. A better choice…
State can give parents options and support traditional public schools
Educational choice is saving the state money An updated analysis from EdChoice finds that Georgia’s two educational choice programs—the Special Needs…
New report details the economic devastation of COVID-19 shutdowns in the 50 states
GCO's study compares each state's response to the pandemic and measures the impact it had on local communities and their…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…