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Anna Wolfe is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covers inequity and corruption in government safety net programs, nonprofit service providers and institutions affecting the marginalized. She began reporting for Mississippi Today in 2018, after she approached the editor with the idea of starting a poverty beat, the first of its kind in the state. Wolfe has received national recognition for her years-long coverage of Mississippi’s welfare program, in which she exposed new details about how officials funneled tens of millions of federal public assistance funds away from needy families and instead to their friends, families and the pet projects of famous athletes. Since joining Mississippi Today, she has received several national honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, the Livingston Award, two Goldsmith Prizes for Investigative Reporting, the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability, the Sacred Cat Award, the Nellie Bly Award, the John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award, the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, the Sidney Award, the National Press Foundation’s Poverty and Inequality Award and others. Previously, Wolfe worked for three years at Clarion Ledger, Mississippi’s statewide newspaper, where she covered city hall, health care, and wrote stories about hunger and medical billing, earning the Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Journalism two years in a row. Born and raised on the Puget Sound in Washington State, Wolfe moved to Mississippi in 2012 to attend Mississippi State University, where she currently serves on the Digital Journalism Advisory Board. She has lived in Jackson, Mississippi since graduating in 2014.

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We looked at nearly 1 million datapoints describing Mississippi job openings. Here’s what we found.

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Methodology: Here’s how we analyzed 40,000 job openings on the Mississippi Works website

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Sports legend’s Madison County horse ranch being paid for by nonprofit at center of welfare embezzlement firestorm

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Jobs in Mississippi database

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The governor, the quarterback and the concussion discussion

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Embattled welfare group paid $5 million for new USM volleyball center

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One day after welfare officials exposed for fraud, lawmakers take aim at recipients

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Connecting the dots: Players in massive welfare embezzlement case got millions from taxpayers, but helped few

Avatar photo by Anna Wolfe February 6, 2020October 29, 2021
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Former welfare agency head, others arrested for embezzling millions intended for poor Mississippians

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Fact check: Mississippi Democratic legislative response to State of the State address, with context

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Fact check: Gov. Tate Reeves’ first State of the State address, with context

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Children with disabilities losing Medicaid coverage

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Want out of Jail? First You Have To Take a Fast-Food Job

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How Mississippi’s ‘supercharged temp agencies’ provide inmate labor to employers

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The prison system puts them to work and takes their paycheck, but inmates say something doesn’t add up

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