Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility and The University of Alabama team up for the “Save Now Win Later” Initiative
WSFA (Montgomery) – Dec. 15
Just in time for tax season, Impact Alabama, the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility and the University of Alabama have teamed up for the “Save Now Win Later” initiative. For every $50 you invest in Federal savings bonds, you have the chance to win a $20,000 jackpot. Families making less than $50,000 with children or earning $25,000 without children are eligible.
EDITORIAL: Racial divide begins to ease for middle class
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 16
… Meanwhile, in Alabama, three-quarters of the state’s 67 counties saw a rise in the poverty rate among children ages 5 to 17 between 2007 and 2009, according to a study based on census data released this month by the University of Alabama. Data studied by UA’s Center for Business and Economic Research looked at U.S. census estimates through 2009. The center found a higher percentage of children living in poverty in our area than in the state as a whole. The number of children living in poverty in West Alabama’s 10 counties, most of them historically poor, ranged from almost 23 percent in Tuscaloosa County to almost half the total number of children in Perry County. The study found that one in five children nationally live in poverty, but in Alabama the rate was 24.6 percent, meaning that nearly a quarter of the children in our state are living in poverty. Middle class families are less divided by race, a welcome trend, but a disproportionate amount of poverty still falls along racial lines.