Well after the nation’s official recovery from the Great Recession began, Alabama continued to feel the downturn’s lingering effects in 2010: lower median household incomes, more poverty and more residents without health insurance. Unemployment has fallen from its 2009 peak, but the state’s jobless rate remains above the national average. Higher poverty, fueled by lower incomes and stubbornly high unemployment, hit the state’s youngest residents especially hard, with one in four Alabama children living below the poverty line in 2009-10.