How So Many Ignore Their Bleeding Neighbors
By Scott Stearman Newborns in 10 counties in Mississippi have a shorter life expectancy than newborns in Bangladesh. Please read […]
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COVID is also a mental health epidemic
Mental health and substance use challenges range from depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction and more. Though some of these issues are?
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Healthy food, healthy children, healthy future
Thanks to a new policy, 250 high-poverty Mississippi schools are offering nutritious breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge.
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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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Mississippi’s leaders thought welfare recipients were on drugs. They were wrong.
Mississippi has screened 5,578 TANF applicants for drug use since August. Only eight (0.14 percent) have tested positive.
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Op-Ed: Toasting the demise of SB 2767
The bill, which would have prohibited abortions based on determinations of race or gender, played on disturbing stereotypes in yet another attempt to limit reproductive justice.
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To reduce unplanned pregnancies, focus on older teens and young adults
A 2014 law requires all of Mississippi’s two- and four-year colleges to develop plans to address unplanned pregnancy on campus. This is a good start, but more needs to be done.
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These are the countries with lower infant mortality rates than Mississippi
Nearly 10 out of every 1,000 children do not survive their first year of life, making Mississippi one of the riskiest places to be born in the developed world.
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Universal meal program is ending hunger in high-poverty schools (as long as they sign up)
28.7 percent of Mississippi children do not have consistent, dependable access to nutritious food at home. The high-poverty community eligibility provision has extended school meals to thousands more Mississippi students, but hundreds of eligible schools still have not signed up.
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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