Jefferson County, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-28

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00:01:13 1 History
00:05:43 1.1 Sewer construction and bond swap controversy
00:08:56 1.2 2011 bankruptcy filing
00:10:05 2 Geography
00:10:46 2.1 Adjacent counties
00:11:13 3 Demographics
00:11:22 3.1 2010
00:12:17 3.2 2000
00:16:59 4 Government and infrastructure
00:19:34 4.1 Taxation
00:21:06 4.2 Law
00:22:41 4.3 Prisons
00:24:00 5 Education
00:25:27 6 Politics
00:26:23 7 Transportation
00:26:33 7.1 Major highways
00:26:42 7.2 Railroads
00:27:08 7.3 Air travel
00:27:28 8 Communities
00:27:37 8.1 Cities
00:27:46 8.2 Towns
00:27:55 8.3 Census-designated places
00:28:05 8.4 Unincorporated communities
00:28:15 8.5 Former towns
00:28:25 9 See also



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Jefferson County is the most populous county in the United States state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, its population was 658,466. Its county seat is Birmingham, the most populous city in the state. Its rapid growth as an industrial city in the 20th century, based on heavy manufacturing in steel and iron, established its dominance.
Jefferson County is the central county of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2011, Jefferson County was $4.2 billion in debt and declared bankruptcy. The financial problems were related to costs of a huge sewer project. Corruption was found among six county commissioners. This was the largest Chapter 9 (municipal) bankruptcy in the United States, until it was surpassed by that of Detroit, Michigan in 2013. Jefferson County emerged from bankruptcy in December 2013, following the approval of a bankruptcy plan by the United States bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Alabama, writing off more than $1.4 billion of the debt.