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.

Georgia Starts Fiscal Year 2026 with $14.6 Billion in General Fund Surplus Accounts
This week, the state released its annual Georgia Revenues and Reserves report, which provides information