by apadmin | 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...
by apadmin | 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...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 4th, 2010 According this article in Saturday’s New York Times, 18 percent of food stamp recipients’ – or 1 in 50 Americans – now live in a household with a reported income that consists of nothing but a food-stamp card. Read the full report – including the...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 22nd, 2009 From today’s Anniston Star: More than 54,000 Alabamians were not counted in the U.S. Census nearly 10 years ago, researchers estimate. To put that in perspective, that would be as if census-takers missed the entire cities of Anniston, Oxford and...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 19th, 2009 We live in extraordinary times.The unemployment rate is the highest it has been in 25 years.One in six Alabamians – and one in four children – live below the federal poverty line, which is just $22,050 a year. Perhaps most heartbreaking of all, 13...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 15th, 2009 APP’s staff, VISTA volunteers and student workers took a trip yesterday to Greensboro to meet with folks at and HEROProject M. When we first arrived in Greensboro, it looked like a pretty typical Black Belt town – a Main Street with lots of empty...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 7th, 2009 We are looking for volunteers to wrap gifts at the Patton Creek Barnes & Noble in Hoover and help raise money for APP! It’s festive, fun and the tips donated for gift wrapping will help fulfill our mission to educate and equip Alabamians to...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 5th, 2009 I am writing this while I take in the SEC Championship game. (In case you were wondering, I am a born-and-bred Florida Gator.) All season – and especially this week – I have felt the strong sense of competition that Alabamians have when it comes...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
December 2nd, 2009 There is a great deal of buzz about “green collar jobs” – manual-labor jobs in rapidly growing green industries – and their potential to reduce our society’s impact on the planet while lifting people out of poverty. The Stanford Center for the Study...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
November 30th, 2009 Alabama has the 12th highest rate of food insecurity according to new report by the Food Research and Action Center. And the problem is exacerbated by the state’s middling performance in getting families who are eligible for food stamps enrolled in...
