Mississippi’s SNAP Trap
What happens when states prosecute people on food stamps before they prosecute people who commit tax fraud worth millions of dollars?
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To rebuild after a storm, focus on building assets before it hits
East Biloxi residents are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. Community organizations are doing their part to promote economic stability, but state policymakers need to lift unnecessary burdens.
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Primary Colors: How Robert Gray’s upset was more than a century in the making
Mississippi’s anachronistic primary system made it possible for a mystery man to win the Democratic nomination for governor.
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Mississippi’s unfilled prescription
The refusal to expand Medicaid means hundreds of thousands of Mississippians will remain without health insurance ? and healthcare providers will be forced to pick up the tab.
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History says Mississippi can’t have two good SEC football teams at the same time. Has that changed?
During a season in which Mississippi boasted two of the country’s top three college football teams, we explore the question that has frustrated Rebels and Bulldogs for a century.
Sound, fury, and the burden of Mississippi history
As Faulkner instructs, the past is never dead. But lingering Confederate sympathy among Mississippians ? flaring in the wake of the University of Mississippi’s diversity and inclusion report ? proves that it is often misremembered.
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Medicaid expansion is a prescription that Mississippi needs to fill
Mississippi?s rejection of Medicaid expansion means that hundreds of thousands will remain without insurance ? and healthcare providers will be forced to pick up the tab.
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The Common Core difference, from a teacher’s perspective
Common Core gave me the flexibility to teach to my students’ individual needs without compromising essential learning goals that ensured they would be ready for college or careers upon graduation.
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Breaking the Cycle: Education must become Mississippi’s top economic development priority
Low educational achievement accounts for more than half of the income gap between Mississippi and the rest of the country.
State of Stagnation: Mississippians born at the bottom are likely to stay at the bottom
A groundbreaking study on economic mobility found that those born in poverty in Mississippi rarely have the opportunity to break out.
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