Journalist Walter C. Jones covers GBPI’s 2012 policy conference. Ricardo Azziz, president of Georgia Health Sciences University, said policymakers don’t often talk of social services as economic-development programs but they should. Even Medicaid, the health-insurance program for the poor, brings money to a community that circulates in that local economy, he said. Read full article.

The Data is in on Federal Budget Cuts: Great Harm for Rural Georgians, Georgians of Color and Georgians with Low-Incomes
Georgia’s future depends on every community having the tools to thrive. For too long, systemic