Kristina Scott, executive director of the statewide poverty nonprofit Alabama Possible, is leaving her position on Sept. 4, the organization announced Friday. Scott is headed to...
Before COVID-19 swept the country, public officials celebrated Alabama’s 2.7 percent unemployment rate: it was a record low for our state, and lower than the national...
Monday, Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama, and Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, have announced legislation that would reduce and simplify the process of applying for federal student aid...
According to the latest numbers presented in the 2018 Alabama Poverty Data Sheet Alabama is still the sixth poorest state in the U.S., but it is...
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—A study by Alabama Possible found 19.2 percent of Alabamians, or more than 900,000 people, live below the Federal Poverty...
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—According to a Census Bureau report released Tuesday, more than one-in-five working-age Alabamians lacked health coverage in 2013. The Census...
