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March 27, 2026
Solving Benefits Cliffs in Medical Assistance Programs
March 27, 2026
Solving Benefits Cliffs in Child Care Assistance Programs
March 26, 2026
How to Reduce Crime in Atlanta
May 19, 2025
It’s Time to Eliminate Marriage Penalties in the U.S. Tax Code
An important step to eliminate marriage penalties is to take those programs away from the IRS and give them to…
March 20, 2024
The North Carolina Benefit Cliffs Problem
November 24, 2020
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…
November 13, 2020
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…
November 9, 2020
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…
October 22, 2020
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…
October 8, 2020
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…
September 17, 2020
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…
June 9, 2020
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…
April 24, 2020
Reopening Responsibly
Fully Reopening Georgia’s Economy Safely As stories continue to mount on the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on individuals…
December 11, 2013
New Report: Increasing Employment Opportunities for Ex-Offenders
This week, Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) published its first report on ways to improve reentry for ex-offenders in the…