• Rethink Mississippi

    Rethink Mississippi

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  • Economics

    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?

    By Joel Dillard, Scalawag Magazine
    December 23, 2015
  • Economics

    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.

    By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice
    October 22, 2015
  • Features

    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.

    By Jake McGraw
    August 14, 2015
  • Features

    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.

    By Mississippi Center for Justice
    August 4, 2015
  • Features

    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.

    By Jake McGraw
    October 5, 2014
  • Education

    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.

    By Jake McGraw
    August 14, 2014
  • Features

    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.

    By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice
    July 29, 2014
  • Education

    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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    July 10, 2014
  • Economics

    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.

    By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice
    April 7, 2014
  • Economics

    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.

    By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice
    April 2, 2014
  • Economics

    Slicing 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.

    By Matt Williams, Mississippi Center for Justice
    April 1, 2014
  • Features

    Life 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
    February 21, 2014
  • Economics

    Mississippi 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
    January 20, 2014
  • Economics

    Should 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
    January 15, 2014
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