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The blame game.

by | 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? ...

1 in 8 get help at food banks

by | 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...

Do we breed contempt for the poor?

by | 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,...

We agree: Alabama can lose the high poverty rate

by | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized

January 26th, 2010 Today’s Tuscaloosa News has a great editorial today challenging the Alabama Commission to Reduce Poverty (of which I am the vice chair) to set goals and work with the legislature to reduce poverty in Alabama.  I couldn’t agree with the News’...

Does Alabama have to always be poor?

by | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized

January 20th, 2010 Yesterday we had the second meeting of the Alabama State Commission to Reduce Poverty, and Jodie Levin-Epstein from the Center for Law and Social Policy talked about the work of poverty commissions across the country.  She also challenged us to set...

What are you doing today?

by | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized

January 18th, 2010 I just went to the Birmingham MLK Day breakfast. It is truly fascinating to go to this kind of event in a city where Martin Luther King, Jr., truly changed the course of history. For the rest of my “day on,” I am working on the program for...

Help stop hunger – 2010 Crop Walk

by | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized

January 6th, 2010 Join us at Caldwell Park to walk away poverty and hunger Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:30! The CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) walk is a community event calling on neighbors to walk together to take a stand against hunger and poverty...