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    Black Belt Manufacturing and Economic Prospects
    Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Bowen, Jonathan; Corley, Emily Grace; Keeney, Noel E.; Whann, Hunter; Jacobs, Emily; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
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    COVID-19 and Alabama’s Black Belt
    Corley, Emily Grace; Till, Garrett; O'Brien, Sean; Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
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    The Economic & Social Impacts of Alabama Public Higher Education
    Katsinas, Stephen G.; Koh, Jonathan P.; Murphy, David S.; Lacey, Vincent A.; Fincher, Mark E.; DeMonBrun, R. Matthew; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Breaux, Arleene P.; Malley, Michael S. Jr.; Adair, J. Lucas; Shedd, Louis E.; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    The Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama has completed an objective analysis to determine whether there is a quantifiable relationship between the funding of Alabama’s universities and the per capita income of Alabama’s citizens. The study revealed a statistically signifcant relationship. Alabama’s state-wide per capita income rises in direct proportion to Alabama’s funding of its public higher education institutions. Alabama gains a quantifiable return on its investment in higher education. Simply put, the more Alabama spends on universities, the better off Alabamians will be.
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    Infrastructure in Alabama’s Black Belt
    Katsinas, Stephen G.; Corley, Emily Grace; Till, Garrett; O'Brien, Sean; Bray, Nathaniel J.; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
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    Profiles of Community Leaders in the Black Belt
    Corley, Emily Grace; Till, Garrett; Shettles, Sally Grace; O'Brien, Sean; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Katsinas, Stephen G.; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
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    A Study of Pell Grants in Alabama
    (Education Policy Center, 2012-11-26) Katsinas, Stephen G.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Koh, Jonathan P.; Grant, Phillip D.; Alabama Commission on Higher Education; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
    Participation in the most basic national program to provide access to college, the federal Pell Grant program, has increased by 50% since 2008, from 6 million to 9 million students. The timing of these Pell increases could not have been better for Alabama students and families, coming at the precise time as the nation entered a lengthy period of high unemployment.The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is the non-partisan federal agency that determines when recessions officially start and end. The NBER affixed June 2007 as the recession’s start. In July 2007, as Table 1 shows, the unemployment rate was above 5% in 12 states. By July of 2009 it was below 5% in just 1 state; and had jumped to above 5% in 49 states. It has remained above 5% nationally and in Alabama since then.