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Anna Wolfe, a native of Tacoma, Wa., is an investigative reporter specifically reporting on poverty and economic justice and the intersection between beats. Before joining the staff at Mississippi Today September 2018, Anna worked for three years at Clarion Ledger covering city, county and state government, politics and health care. She also worked as an investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity and Jackson Free Press. Anna earned her associate’s degree from Pierce College in Lakewood, Wa., and her bachelor’s from Mississippi State University. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her work, including being named a Food Sustainability Media Award finalist for Written Journalism, October 2018; winner of the Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Journalism, June 2018; and first place for in-depth investigative coverage from the Mississippi Press Association, June 2018. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Clarion Ledger, Sun Herald, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press and Jackson Free Press.
Humphreys County, where four out of ten people live in poverty, is the single most heavily audited county in the nation.
Parisi, who has quietly become one of the most influential figures in state government, says that connections Italian media are making between his work, Brexit and alleged data mining are bizarre. This week, a Jackson attorney took legal action in hopes of shedding light on the relationship between Parisi’s Mississippi State-based data lab, NSPARC, and Brexit architects.
The average salary of Mississippi state employees lags surrounding states. Matching the average salaries in the four contiguous states would cost an additional $77.3 million.
A little-known research lab called NSPARC knows where Mississippians went to school, how much money they make and whether they’ve ever received food stamps. But finding out what the taxpayer-funded center at Mississippi State University does with all that information is much harder.
Massachusetts senator talked comfortably about race as she toured neighborhoods in Cleveland and Greenville, and residents there were hopeful after seeing “a presidential candidate to come to the Delta.”
Lawmakers have declined to add enforcement measures to state law that makes balance billing illegal. Harvard study says a “… poll reported that 4 in 10 Mississippians have received or have a family member who received a surprise medical bill.”
Some lawmakers oppose an existing law — and any efforts to strengthen it — that protects patients against large out-of-pocket medical bills, said a committee chairman
Advocacy groups want to roll back a child support provision they say further stigmatizes low-income families
Battling crime amid questions of police professionalism, Jackson police chief says ‘We’re not an abusive police. And we shouldn’t be painted that way.’
Many state employees have not seen salary hikes in a decade, but some are cautiously optimistic as policymakers float the possibility of pay raises
A key Senate committee chairman supports legislation to up the per-pack tax
A story making the rounds on social media may not be what it appears
The Rev. William Barber II said a Mississippi senator’s recent gaffe was “ugly,” but not more so than policies that perpetuate poverty
Because they are elected instead of appointed, judges in Mississippi must balance their court docket and political campaigning.
The persistent myth that felony convictions automatically result in lost voting rights means that thousands of people may be eligible to vote and not realize it