Since 2015, the number of Alabama children entering foster care rose 16.3 percent, according to a new report. Here are other important highlights.

The US state of Alabama - which is holding a much-watched special election - has some of the worst conditions of poverty in the developed world, according to a visiting United Nations official.

MONTGOMERY (AP) — A national poverty reduction expert gave the state kudos for its success in taking steps to help Alabama's impoverished, but she also issued the new Alabama Commission ...

Alabama is one of 31 states that saw one-year increases in both the number and the percentage of the population living in poverty.

The poverty figures, however, have improved over the past 25 years. In 1981, 24-point-1 percent of Alabama residents were living below the poverty line.

Some data for Alabama, courtesy of Auburn/sUniversity Montgomery and the U.S. Census Bureau:/s Poverty rate, 16.1 percent. Poverty rate for children 17 and under: 21.5 percent. Blacks living belo… ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama's poverty rate went down slightly from 2010 to 2011, while the median income in the state went up, according to new U.S. Census data. The report released Wednesday ...