Is Mississippi providing financial aid for traditional and non-traditional students alike?
Mississippi only allocates 15 cents of every financial aid dollar on the basis of need, while other states designate 71 cents per financial aid dollar.
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Mississippi education remains separate and unequal
More than one-fourth of Mississippi public schools are at least 90 percent black. Another tenth are at least 90 percent white. And, just as in 1964, students in those identifiably black schools receive an inferior education.
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We all love Mississippi, so why don’t we like living here?
The Mississippi author Willie Morris had a saying: “We all love Mississippi, but it doesn’t always love us back.” However, recent data suggest that there may be less love lost than Willie realized.
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Report: Mississippi children continue to lack needed resources
Children in Mississippi are falling further behind the rest of the nation?s children in vital areas such as education and health, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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The Healthy Students Act has reduced obesity among white children. Why not anyone else?
In the state that ranks at the bottom for almost every health outcome, the Mississippi Healthy Students Act has been hailed as a big step forward in the battle against childhood obesity and chronic disease. But its success has masked growing racial disparities.
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The ACA offers working Mississippians a long-overdue raise. State leaders should embrace it.
The Affordable Care Act could correct an imbalance in the tax code and improve working Mississippians’ financial security… if the state’s leaders would just get out of the way.
Only 6% of uninsured Mississippians have gotten covered through healthcare reform. What gives?
The rejection of Medicaid expansion and mistrust among the uninsured have depressed enrollment.
Here’s (pretty much) everything you need to know about SB 2681
Is it about religious freedom? Is it about LGBTQ discrimination? We cover all of that in our primer on the most controversial bill of the legislative session.
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Why Mississippians need national health insurance (and no, that doesn’t mean Obamacare)
By selling health insurance at the state level, places like Mississippi have fewer options and higher costs.
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Mississippi has the worst hunger rate in the country. Why do we make it so hard to get food assistance?
More than 20 percent of Mississippians — and nearly 30 percent of children — do not have consistent access to nutritious food. The latest cuts to food assistance programs are a step in the wrong direction.