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.

It’s Time to Modernize Georgia’s Tobacco User Fee and Add Commonsense Safeguards for a Healthier State
Overview Georgia has the nation’s second lowest state cigarette user fee and lags most other




