Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced the award of $356,250 to 20 community action agencies statewide for programs aimed at reducing poverty. The Community Action Association...
Almost half of Alabamians experienced a loss in income since the COVID-19 crisis began, and more than 13 percent said they hadn’t had enough to eat...
More than 800,000 Alabamians, 256,000 of them children, were living below the federal poverty level before the COVID-19 crisis and more than 400,000 lost their jobs...
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist — or even any kind of scientist — to figure out that Alabama’s state government is broken. I mean, really,...
The last decade should embarrass anyone living in Alabama. Because by any measure that doesn’t include college football, the last 10 years have been a disaster...
Alabama celebrated its 200th birthday on Saturday. In a few weeks, researchers from UAB will begin testing children for a disease — hookworms — that was...
As we enter the giving season, it seems natural that we should take stock of where we are as a state. Jobs are plentiful, state government...
Alabama will have been a state for 200 years on December 14, 2019. Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) and the rest of the Alabama congressional delegation introduced...
Hunger and food insecurity continue to plague Alabama’s children. In some countries, 30 percent of the state’s most vulnerable citizens, its children, suffer food insecurity according...
There are good people in Alabama. I know this to be true. I’ve lived here my entire life. I’ve seen the good people of this state...
