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Follow @MekaeliaD Imagine a region where 14.6 percent of the people are poor – meaning a family of four makes no more than $23,550 per year. Now...
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From left, Assistant Principal Dehea Smith and Principal Dr. Barbara Shirley of Alta Vista Elementary School with Anne Mosle during a recent site visi...
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Follow @champagne_me From left, Gloria Perez, Henry Wilde, Reggie Bicha, and Anne Mosle Recently I had the opportunity to join several of our A...
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Imagine this: A modern housing campus for single mothers and their children provides on-site high-quality early care and education and career and ment...
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In 2000, the poverty rate for women in Alabama was 17.9%. In 2011, the poverty rate for women in Alabama was 18.7%. Many organizations in Birmingham w...
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Arriving right on time, Tameka circles the smiling star on her Perfectly Punctual Scorecard and dons the Perfectly Punctual vest to greet other chi...