by apadmin | 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’...
by apadmin | 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...
by apadmin | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 18th, 2010 Please join the Alabama Association of Nonprofits Alabama Civil Justice Foundation Alabama Poverty Project Alabama State Commission to Reduce Poverty Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham For a reception in honor of Jodie Levin-Epstein, Deputy...
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...
