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Fund public transportation to improve life for all Alabamians

Overview Inadequate funding for public transportation keeps thousands of people across Alabama from meeting basic needs. Unreliable bus systems cause people to be late for work, risking the loss of their jobs. If parents have a car that breaks down in rural Alabama, their children may miss doctor’s appointments, school and other activities because public [...]
Issue
Public Transportation
Date
January 29, 2025
Author
Dev Wakeley
Fact Sheet

Paid parental leave improves life for Alabama workers

Overview We all benefit when new parents are able to dedicate more time to bonding with their children. Paid parental leave is a crucial policy to promote stronger families, and it also helps more people remain in the workforce and continue to contribute to our economy. Alabama lawmakers should embrace the opportunity to ensure paid [...]
Issues
Other Issues, Economic Opportunity
Date
January 28, 2025
Author
Dev Wakeley
Fact Sheet

Remove tax incentives for companies that break child labor laws in Alabama

Overview Companies that accept public money through economic development incentives should be held accountable when breaking laws that protect workers.  But because Alabama’s historical development model caters to big companies at the expense of workers, consequences for bad actors are too light.  The state’s development philosophy is heavy on tax breaks and light on accountability [...]
Issue
Other Issues
Date
January 28, 2025
Author
Dev Wakeley
Fact Sheet

School breakfast for all: What Alabama can do to help feed all of our kids

By Carol Gundlach, senior policy analyst, and LaTrell Clifford Wood, hunger policy advocate | January 2025 Overview Alabama can and should do more to equip our children and our schools for success. One big step would be to provide school breakfast for all our children. And our lawmakers can make major progress toward that goal [...]
Issues
Health, Safety Net, Tax Reform, Other Issues
Date
January 24, 2025
Author
Alabama Arise
Fact Sheet

What are the benefits of a universal school breakfast program in Alabama?

Alabama should do more to equip schoolchildren and teachers for success. Our state consistently ranks among the bottom five states for educational outcomes. And one essential school supply missing from several Alabama schools would immensely improve said outcomes: universal school breakfast. Below are a few of the positive effects that universal school breakfast would have [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net, Other Issues
Date
August 26, 2024
Author
LaTrell Clifford Wood
Fact Sheet

Universal school breakfast helps Alabama children learn and thrive

School breakfast helps kids learn: Children who start the day with breakfast learn better. They have better classroom participation and are less likely to skip school than kids who don’t get breakfast. But tight family budgets and stressful mornings mean many children arrive at school hungry. School breakfast can help fill this gap. School, bus [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net, Other Issues
Date
August 26, 2024
Author
Carol Gundlach
Fact Sheet

CHOOSE Act will further hurt Alabama’s public schools

Many Alabamians think of public education as a natural part of growing up and of community life. Public schools are at the center of hundreds of communities across our state. And their calendars often set a rhythm for the flow of the year: football games in the fall, band concerts and theater productions in the [...]
Issues
Budgets, Other Issues
Date
August 22, 2024
Author
Carol Gundlach
Fact Sheet

Expand Medicaid to save moms and babies in Alabama

Where you live shouldn’t impact whether you get health care. But many women face preventable barriers to obtaining maternal health care in Alabama. Closing Alabama’s health coverage gap through Medicaid expansion is an essential part of the solution. Alabama has experienced a steady rate of labor and delivery department closures in recent years, creating several maternity [...]
Issues
Health, Medicaid Expansion
Date
August 20, 2024
Author
Debbie Smith
Fact Sheet

Summer EBT for 2025

A state appropriation for Summer EBT will ensure $40 in food benefits per summer month for more than 500,000 eligible Alabama children ages 5-17.   1 in 4 Alabama children are food insecure. Too many of our children don’t know where their next meal will come from. Because of systemic barriers to food access, a [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Safety Net
Date
August 1, 2024
Author
LaTrell Clifford Wood
Fact Sheet

Close the health coverage gap for Alabama’s veterans

Many Alabama veterans face preventable barriers to obtaining health care. Closing our state’s health coverage gap through Medicaid expansion is an essential part of the solution. Approximately 10,000 Alabama veterans are uninsured. In 2022, half of Alabama veterans who were uninsured had an income below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL), which is the [...]
Issues
Health, Medicaid Expansion
Date
May 14, 2024
Author
Suhas Kellampalli