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.

Our Comment on the National Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Information Database
On July 21, 2025, GBPI’s President and CEO, Staci Fox, submitted the following formal comment