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Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Warren to travel to Selma

Sunday, Presidential candidates former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesoata, will travel to Alabama where they will participate in the events commemorating the attempted crossing of the Edmund Pettus bridge by voting rights marchers during … Continued
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February 28, 2020

Atlanta Mayor to campaign for Biden in Alabama

Thursday, the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden (D) announced that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will travel to Tennessee and Alabama to campaign on behalf of Joe Biden. On Friday, Mayor Bottoms will travel to Tennessee, where she will host a Women for Biden event with State Senator Brenda Gilmore, moderate a … Continued
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February 28, 2020

Buttigieg to visit Alabama on Sunday

Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be in Selma Sunday for a short visit in observance of the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” The Pete for America campaign also announces that they will be hosting more than 100 events in Alabama this weekend as part of their get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort ahead of the … Continued
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February 27, 2020

State unemployment rate drops to new low

Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced last week that Alabama reached a new record low unemployment rate in October. Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate is just 2.8 percent, down from September’s rate of 3.0 percent, and well below October 2018’s rate of 3.8 percent. “More than 80,000 Alabamians are working today … Continued
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November 22, 2019

State unemployment drops again in September

Friday, the Alabama Department of Labor announced that our state reached a new record low unemployment rate of 3.0 percent. The governor said in a statement that she is very proud of this news, but is remaining laser focused on helping all Alabamians who want a job to get a job. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey … Continued
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October 23, 2019

Alabama NAACP will hold voting rights vigils tonight

The Alabama NAACP has announced that they are holding voting rights vigils in Alabama’s four largest cities tonight to protest what they feel are a weakening of voting rights in this country. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law on August 6, 1965 and will be 54 years old today. There will … Continued
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August 6, 2019