VOICES for Alabama's children

VOICES for Alabama’s Children is releasing the 2024 Alabama Kids Count Data Book, emphasizing the critical role economic security has in all aspects of children’s lives. It especially highlights the more than 200,000 Alabama children at risk of enduring the long-term detrimental effects of poverty.

Alabama legislation to expand Medicaid coverage and regulate firearms outlaw are just two state bills being watched by children’s advocates. Lawmakers may try to prevent the use of devices to turn weapons into machine guns. Another measure may try to make Medicaid more available to pregnant women to reduce infant mortality.

Advocacy groups are urging Alabama lawmakers to join a federal program that gives summer food assistance to low-income families with school age children. The program called Summer EBT, or Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer Program, provides families $40 per month for each child receiving free and reduced-price school lunches.

Alabama has some work to do when it comes to taking care of children. A KIDS COUNT study done in 2019 places Alabama at 47th overall out of 50 in the US.…

A new report could give future researchers information on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted children in the state.The Alabama Kids Count Data Book is a…

A nonprofit organization in Alabama has some tough news about kids in Alabama.VOICES for Alabama’s Children has released its annual Kids Count Data Book,…

Alabama ranked 44th in an annual national assessment of child well-being that looks at poverty, education and health access. The Kids Count report was…

The Alabama Senate is expected to vote on legislation that would allow people to carry a concealed handgun in Alabama without a getting a permit. In the…

Alabama lawmakers are expected to debate a proposal that would require all day care facilities to be regulated by the state, and would end a longstanding…

State lawmakers are planning to debate a bill that would require all day care facilities to be licensed and end a longstanding exemption for…