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Do we breed contempt for the poor?

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

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?

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?

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...