federal aid

Study: Alabama hunger soaring due to federal aid cuts, inflation

Hunger Free America attributes this surge in hunger to the expiration of several federal programs.

December 19, 2024

Thomasville Regional Medical Center closure intensifies Alabama’s rural healthcare crisis

Financial challenges have plagued the hospital since it lost COVID-related federal aid in 2022.

September 27, 2024

Ivey includes $80 million in federal aid to hospitals, nursing homes in special session

Gov. Kay Ivey has included a call for the Legislature to consider allocating $80 million in federal COVID aid to state hospitals and nursing homes.

Eddie Burkhalter

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October 26, 2021

Feds awards $2.4 million to Alabama rural clinics to combat vaccine hesitancy

The 50 rural health clinics are to use the funds to combat misinformation and boost vaccine confidence.

Eddie Burkhalter

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July 23, 2021

Nonprofit asks that federal COVID aid be used to aid re-entry, prevent incarceration

Alabama Appleseed says the incarcerated and recently released were failed by state prisons during the pandemic.

Eddie Burkhalter

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July 22, 2021

Groups ask Ivey to spend $4 billion in pandemic aid on those most in need

Groups say money should go to expand Medicaid, improve housing, education and access to broadband.

Eddie Burkhalter

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July 9, 2021

Gov. Kay Ivey awards federal COVID aid to Huntsville, Colbert County

Huntsville is set to use $1.5 million to aid people without housing while Colbert County plans to start a mobile health clinic.

Eddie Burkhalter

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May 12, 2021

Natural disaster aid applications open Wednesday for farmers

Beginning Wednesday farmers whose crops were affected by natural disasters in 2018 and 2019 can apply for some of the more than $3 billion in federal aid.  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue made the announcement Monday that the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus signup starts Sept. 11.  “U.S. agriculture has been dealt a … Continued

September 11, 2019

Opinion

State schools chief backtracks, Montgomery schools mess grows

Never mind. That’s essentially what state schools superintendent Eric Mackey told parents, business leaders, school system employees and everyone else on Tuesday, telling the Montgomery Advertiser that he — the top executive in all of Alabama public education — might have been mistaken when he talked about the effects of Montgomery’s public schools potentially losing … Continued

Josh Moon

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June 14, 2018