But while Sweet Water stands apart from other high-poverty schools, it doesn’t stand alone: Some Alabama schools -- with lots of poor kids and not a lot of local tax support -- are beating the odds.

It's no secret in Alabama that school performance and poverty are closely linked, a point driven home Thursday by the release of the state's first school and district report cards in 17 years.

Alabama fans expect a national championship every year, but timeout when it comes to poverty,” said Equal Justice Initiative Founder Bryan Stevenson. A multi-colored map from the U.S. Department ...

I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country. People living in poverty lack certain means to reach a standard of living, as we showed you in Part One of ...

Potential federal budget cuts could severely impact food assistance and health care access for hundreds of thousands of ...

Philip Alston, whose job takes him around the planet to look at conditions of extreme poverty, said some of the things he saw in parts of Alabama so-called Black Belt, particularly in regard to ...

And we raise awareness about opportunities for improvement, including infant deaths, child poverty and food insecurity.” Here are the top takeaways from the 102-page report: The Alabama Kids ...

Speaking of cesspools, my report draws attention to those I witnessed in Alabama. As part of his poverty tour, Alston visited Lowndes County, where the Halcombes live just yards away from their ...

Here in Alabama, we used to say, “Thank God for Mississippi.” We took grim satisfaction that no matter how poorly Alabama performed on various measures — from poverty to educational ...

In 2022, about 35,932 children were subject to an investigated abuse and neglect report in Alabama. 2. More kids are living in poverty. Since 2000, child poverty has been steadily climbing in ...