by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 25th, 2010 Have you returned your 2010 census form? $4 trillion in federal funds are on the line, and without accurate population counts, your community could lose out. Already turned in your form? Urge others to do the same. Low income populations are the least...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 24th, 2010 One great result of this week’s health care overhaul is that 642,00 uninsured Alabamians will be eligible for health coverage. The Birmingham News reported that when the legislation takes effect in 2014, 400,000 new Alabamians will be eligible for...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 23rd, 2010 APP hosted Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: A Hunger and Food Security Workshop last Thursday at Capitol Heights Baptist Church in Montgomery. Over 50 attendees came together to break bread and to share information, new ideas and strategies for...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 22nd, 2010 The Christian Science Monitor reports that Alabama is the second biggest loser of jobs in the nation. (Michigan is the first.) According to US Department of Labor reports, the last time we had so few people working was in 1993. Why? Alabama leaders...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 17th, 2010 On Monday, APP sponsored the Learning Community Boot Camp at Calhoun Community College in Decatur. Colleagues from three of our higher education partner institutions – Wallace State Community College, Northwest-Shoals Community College, and Calhoun –...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 12th, 2010 Alabama’s unemployment rate just hit 11.8 percent, the highest in 26 years. Meanwhile, 41 percent of people claiming unemployment benefits have been jobless for over seven months. In these times of high unemployment, many households that were once...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 10th, 2010 We are proud to unveil the winning logo for our Blueprints college access program: It is the design of Christopher Murphy, a senior in UAB’s graphic design department. Chris is a 27-year-old from Birmingham, and his design was chosen out of over 15...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 5th, 2010 Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal reported on well-intentioned programs that do more harm than good (“Doing Bad by Doing Good”). It recounted tales of projects gone wrong – unfinished toilets in Peru, stilettos and winter coats sent to post-tsunami...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 3rd, 2010 The White House announced yesterday that for the first time in over 40 years, the commerce department is adopting a new formula for measuring poverty. Called the “supplemental measure of poverty,” it will not replace the current official measure of...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
March 2nd, 2010 What’s one of the biggest reasons more Alabamians don’t go to college? Paying for it. Alabama has one of the country’s highest poverty rates at 16 percent, but the one of the lowest state budgets for need-based financial aid at just $3.35 million in...
