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.

GBPI Responds to Congress Passing Reconciliation Bill
After weeks of debate, Congress has passed the reconciliation bill (once known as the One