by apadmin | Jul 25, 2019 | data, datasheet, food security, Jobs, poverty
Alabama Possible today released its 2019 Poverty Data Sheet, revealing that more than 800,000 Alabamians, including 262,000 children, live below the federal poverty threshold. Alabama’s poverty rate of 16.9% is more than three points higher than the national average...
by Alabama Possible | Mar 28, 2017 | College Success, food security, Higher Education Alliance
By April Davis, AmeriCorpsVISTA Hunger is not a rite of passage. Yet nearly half of college students face the risk of hunger, according to the study Hunger on Campus. “These students are not the archetypical ‘poor college student,’ who spend too much...
by Alabama Possible | Dec 9, 2016 | data, datasheet, food security, poverty
The holidays bring out generosity of all sorts, including meeting our neighbors’ immediate needs by donating to holiday food drives. Donated food helps feed the more than 900,000 Alabamians, including 300,000 children, who are food insecure and at risk of...
