by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
This morning, President Obama, General Powell, and U.S. Secretary of Education Anne Duncan addressed the nation about one of the leading determinants of economic prosperity: educational attainment. Powell’s America’s Promise Alliance launched a new campaign, Grad...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
February 17th, 2010 Last week, my friends and I had a pretty intense conversation about the Facebook group “Making Drug Tests Required to Get Welfare” and the counter group “Cringing in disbelief at “Making Drug Tests Required to Get Welfare.” What’s my take away? ...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
February 9th, 2010 Feeding America recently released its 2010 Hunger Report, which showed that one in eight Americans — 37 million — received emergency food help last year. That’s up a whopping 46% from 2006. In Alabama, the Food Bank of North Alabama and the Food...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
February 3rd, 2010 Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., had an interesting Sunday column. It is recommended reading. Leonard Pitts: Public silence greets poor’s powerlessness If he’d said it of Jews, he would still be apologizing. If he’d said it of blacks,...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 28th, 2010 One of the many roles I play is as vice-chair of the Alabama Commission to Reduce Poverty. This is a brand new, permanent commission, and my fellow officers are the chair, Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham), and the secretary, Sen. Arthur Orr...
