Mississippi once again leads the nation in poverty and lags in median household income. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday. Mississippi had a poverty rate of 22.6% in 2011, ...
STARKVILLE- Mississippi is no longer the poorest state in the union. West Virginia holds that distinction by a rather narrow margin. But regardless the rank, we struggle against a high rate of ...
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Mississippi worst state for social activism: report
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In a state historically known as a battleground for change, a new report reveals that the fruits of ...
Mississippi has the distinction of being the poorest state with the highest homicide rate in the U.S., according to a recent analysis from prescription management service NiceRx. Research from the ...
The arrest of former Mississippi Department of Human Services Director John Davis and others has brought a lot of attention to TANF or the federal grant called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, ...
(THE CONVERSATION) In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a white woman, violating the racial norms of the Jim ...
Summoned to the South by Marian Wright of the NAACP, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph Clark traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the Spring of 1967 to assess the effectiveness of the federal War ...
Nearly $100 million in federal anti-poverty funds for Mississippi were misspent to enrich local officials, along with a family of professional wrestlers and a firm owned by Hall of Fame quarterback ...
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