Kids Count Alabama annual report shows more living in poverty; demographics changing, By Mike Cason, November 19, 2014, Birmingham News: “An annual report on child well-being in Alabama shows more children living in poverty and changing demographics. The Alabama Kids Count data book, published each year since 1992, was released today by VOICES for Alabama’s Children. The report says 290,000 Alabama children, 26 percent, lived in poverty in 2012. That was up from 21.5 percent in 2000…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty