The Center for a Better South offers a wide array of publications related to public policy and the American South. Annually, the Center seeks to issue a book or major paper of policy ideas on a major issue to help Southern lawmakers grapple with them. Among our highlights:
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- 2015-18: The Center published frequent updates about its involvement with the S.C. Promise Zone, including reports on grant classes over a two-year period that trained more than 250 people in the impoverished part of South Carolina.
- 2014-15: The Center published a new photo about the rural South every other day as part of its Southern Crescent project to showcase conditions in the region. As of July 2015, more than 300 unique photos were on the Center’s website.
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- 2013: The Center developed a third edition of its Briefing Book to showcase more than 90 data points and 38 indicators for each state. The Center also produced a video to highlight its Southern Crescent project.
- 2013: The Center developed a third edition of its Briefing Book to showcase more than 90 data points and 38 indicators for each state. The Center also produced a video to highlight its Southern Crescent project.
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- 2011: The Center developed a second edition of its Briefing Book that featured 36 indicators and more than 70 data points about each Southern state. (Let us know if you need a copy)
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- 2010: The Center promoted its Agenda for a Better South, launched the BetterGulf.org photo blog (no longer online) and developed “Ideas for a Better Gulf,” a series of big ideas on Gulf restoration following the April oil disaster off the Louisiana coast.
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- 2009: The Center developed a special Briefing Book of more than 60 statistics for each Southern state in anticipation of its ThinkSouth conference to develop the Agenda for a Better South. (Let us know if you need a copy)
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- 2007: The Center published “Getting Greener: Progressive Environmental Ideas for the American South.” It also developed and published interviews with its FIVE QUESTIONS series with key leaders and thinkers. (Let us know if you need a copy)
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- 2006: The Center published “Doing Better: Progressive Tax Reform for the American South.” (Let us know if you need a copy)
The Center, a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt organization, has been crafted in the spirit of the LQC Lamar Society, which was started in 1969 by “men and women who believed the South could achieve practical solutions to its problems, regardless of whether these men were liberal or conservative, white or black, Democrat or Republican, establishment or student.”