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EconomicsMississippi’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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EconomicsTo 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.
By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice -
FeaturesPrimary 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.
By Jake McGraw -
FeaturesMississippi’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.
By Mississippi Center for Justice -
FeaturesHistory 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.
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EducationSound, 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.
By Jake McGraw -
FeaturesMedicaid 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.
By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice -
EducationThe 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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EconomicsBreaking 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.
By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice -
EconomicsState 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.
By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice -
EconomicsSlicing the Pie: Mississippi’s economy puts the few ahead of the many
In the first of a three-part series, Matt Williams of the Mississippi Center for Justice argues why Mississippians should be concerned about rising income inequality.
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FeaturesLife and irony at Ole Miss
UM's first black female student body president encountered racism at the university, but she also learned the meaning of love and compassion.
By Kimbrely Dandridge -
EconomicsMississippi must develop educated cities to achieve sustainable growth
Economic research shows that Southern cities benefit the most from increasing concentrations of skilled workers. Mississippi needs to catch up.
By Neil White -
EconomicsShould Mississippians hunt deer or rabbits? What game theory can tell us about brain drain
Mississippi is stuck in a bad equilibrium that gives its educated young people little incentive to stay.
By Neil White
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