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yallerdawg

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Tue Jul 4, 2017, 12:03 PM Jul 2017

Alabama is 6th poorest state in nation; poverty rate at 40 percent in some counties [View all]

About 900,000 Alabamians live in poverty, according to a 2017 report from Alabama Possible.

Source: al.com. by Anne Claire Vollers

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About 18.5 percent of Alabamians live below the federal poverty line, but the percentage varies widely by county. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Black Belt counties have the highest rates of poverty while metro areas have the lowest.

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Fourteen of Alabama's 67 counties - all of them in the Black Belt - have a poverty rate higher than 25 percent.

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"Poverty is not a state of mind; it's a complex series of barriers that hardworking people have to overcome every day," said Kristina Scott, executive director of Alabama Possible, the statewide nonprofit that released the report.

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Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/07/alabama_is_6th_poorest_state_i.html#incart_river_home_pop

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