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budget cuts to hit schools

Alabama Notes — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:31:48 +0000

MONTGOMERY | The monster is finally at the door of K-12 education funding, now that federal stimulus money is gone and the reserve fund that sustained school budgets for two years is empty.

Alabama appliance rebate program still has $1.8 million

Alabama Notes — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:38:06 +0000

Appliance rebate.JPGView full size(Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)Sears appliance sales specialist Kim Lucas demonstrates features of a rebate eligible dishwasher Monday, April 19, 2010, at Bel Air Mall in Mobile, Ala. Alabama consumers still have a chance to take advantage of appliance rebates.

Alabama agencies cutting 1,100 employees

Alabama Notes — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:43:35 +0000

Alabama's state government is going to have 1,100 fewer employees by this fall due to state budget cuts, the end of federal stimulus funding and different standards of care for the mentally disabled.

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State of Alabama to have 1,100 fewer employees this fall

Alabama Notes — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:55:51 +0000

State budget cuts, the end of federal stimulus funding and different standards of care for the mentally disabled are the reasons.

Advertiser: Alabama mental health department laying off 582 statewide

Alabama Notes — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:46:35 +0000

Loss of federal stimulus money puts budget deeply into red, director tells newspaper. Agency offloads one-quarter of its workers over the coming days, weeks and months. Read more from The Birmingham News

WSCC tuition going up 16 percent

Alabama Notes — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:59:00 +0000

To balance state budget cuts and the loss of federal stimulus dollars this year, tuition at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville will increase by approximately 16 percent this fall.

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CPSI earns record profit, revenue on strength of federal stimulus

Alabama Notes — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:14:13 +0000

MOBILE, Ala. — Buoyed by an influx of federal stimulus dollars into the industry, health care software firm Computer Programs and Systems Inc. recorded its best year in 2010, increasing revenue and profit by more than 20 percent. MOBILE, Ala. — Buoyed by an influx of …

Prisons benefiting from education stimulus funds

Alabama Notes — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:11:55 +0000

The biggest recipient of Alabama’s federal stimulus dollars for education isn’t a school system or college. It’s the state prison system.

Alabama news links: State gets over $3 billion in stimulus money

Alabama Notes — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:25:53 +0000

Also: Revenues in state budgets down sharply; great-great-grandmother credits church's AED with saving her life, and Tuscaloosa County sheriff, DA at odds. News from around the state: The Anniston Star reports Alabama has received $3.2 billion in federal stimulus money, in …

Report: 2,400 jobs for needy in Alabama at stake

Alabama Notes — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:36:19 +0000

Nearly 2,400 jobs probably will be lost to otherwise unemployed adults and young people in Alabama if a federal stimulus program is not extended by Congress, according to a new report.