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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. She also worked as an investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity and Jackson Free Press. Anna has received numerous awards and recognition, including the Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Journalism 2018 and 2019 and first place for in-depth investigative reporting from the Mississippi Press Association 2018 and 2019.
As pandemic responses have polarized communities across Mississippi, not even medical professionals are immune to the discord.
Mississippi’s “sea of outbreaks,” fueled by community COVID-19 transmission, is creating dangerous working conditions in factories across the state.
As the state reckons with Confederate imagery and its place in the state, residents of Caledonia are debating whether the local high school mascot, the “Confederates,” belongs anymore.
Within debate over the current state flag, which contains the Confederate battle emblem, rural, white Mississippi asks, “Why do I have to change?”
Officials say they have received dozens of calls from Mississippians who say someone has used their information to file unemployment claims without their knowledge.
Some officials are calling on the state to invest more in child care centers as the industry is on the brink just as the state is reopening and many Mississippians are heading back to work.
Mississippi Department of Employment Security has not said how many claims they’ve officially approved and of those, how many have actually gotten their money.
Mississippi Today sat down with Nancy New and other nonprofit employees in October of 2018. Here’s what they said about their welfare program that is now at the center of a criminal probe.
As Nancy New spent hundreds of thousands of welfare dollars to lobby, her private school companies received nearly $1.3 million from the state’s public education budget.
“We are eager to come to a final penalty resolution and ensure that the state replaces any misused federal TANF funds with its own state funds”, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
We broke down what an audit alleges the Mississippi Department of Human Services actually purchased versus what could have been purchased with funding from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, intended to assist families in poverty or prevent families from reaching poverty.
Documents show The University of Southern Mississippi was aware the $5 million in funding to build a new volleyball court came from a DHS block grant
The state auditor’s single audit, conducted every year on behalf of the federal government, sheds new light on the misspending that led to six arrests in early February.
Leaders say a long-term shift in priorities away from unemployment has placed the state at a further disadvantage to handle the crisis.
The story of Shalondra Rollins, the first person to die of COVID-19 in Hinds County, may tell us everything about why black Mississippians are hit so much harder by the pandemic