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A chicken-and-egg conundrum?

April 6th, 2010 The Alabama Select Commission on High School Graduation and Student Dropouts recently made recommendations to reduce our high school drop out rate, which currently stands at over 40 percent.   Those recommendations included: tracking students at-risk...

Millennials: not “the chump generation”

March 31st, 2010 Robert J. Samuelson recently penned a column titled “Will Millennials become the chump generation?” speculating that our generation, aged 18-29, would suffer the effects of the recession and the national debt for years to come – but according to...

What we’re reading: The Legacy of a Cotton Culture

March 30th, 2010 Larry Lee is the director of the Center for Rural Alabama and a good friend to APP.  He can always be counted on to give me feedback on our APP newsletter, and I appreciate his honesty. That honesty is readily apparent in his must-read account of...

Calling all social justice Christians

March 26th, 2010 We believe social justice is a key part of Christ’s teachings, and that by working together for systemic change, we can end poverty. If you believe in the Social Gospel, please join us for Alabama Possible, a social justice and anti-poverty conference...