This month, hear from Texas Impact and Texas Interfaith Center staff about the ways your faith community can get involved in the reentry process, plus learn more about the Texas Interfaith Center's new initiative, Reinvested Communities. Staff will also give an overview of Texas Impact and the Community Partners Recruitment Initiative.

Introductory and Outro music:

"Ashton Manor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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The Interfaith Center is proud to present A Right To Preserve All Others, a supplemental podcast to our first Faith In Democracy online publication. This episode explores the history of the poll tax and the ratification of the 24th Amendment by the Texas legislature and features interviews with Interfaith Center General Counsel Joshua Houston and Texas Rep. Dr. Alma Allen.

To learn more about the history of the poll tax in Texas, and for a deeper discussion of voting rights, visit http://www.texasinterfaithcenter.org/polltaxtexas.

Dr. Amanda Brownson of Moak, Casey and Associates discusses the history of the Texas public education system, gives an overview of school finance and addresses past and current concerns before Texas courts related to public education. This talk was given during the 2012 United Methodist Women's Legislative Event, January 23, 2012.

A brief introduction to the Texas Interfaith Center For Public Policy's official podcast.

For more details, please visit our website.