Transportation

Transportation limitations in rural Alabama contribute to almost every facet of life. There are also many issues that could be alleviated with increases in transportation availability including access to healthy food, better education, more workplace opportunities, and access to healthcare.

Social Issues

Many of rural Alabama's struggles can also be traced to a deeply rooted sense of segregation and racism. While the state as a whole is growing in its ability to find acceptance, social issues played, and continue to play, a powerful role in allowing some rural Alabamians the ability to grow their communities. (This issue is incredibly delicate, but it is impossible to deny its importance and relevance, both in the past and today).

Workforce/Workplace Development

In 2019, Nancy Beggs spoke to the students about workplace development and the difficulties of raising children in a household of parents who are away most of the day due to work/transportation to and from/etc.
- Children won't have a ride to or from school from a parent to allow for the participation in extracurricular activities
- The ability to start of a family can be difficult if workplaces don't provide ways for new mothers to care for infants-toddlers who aren't in school (no nursery system or cannot afford such services)