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Anna Wolfe, a native of Tacoma, Wa., is an investigative reporter writing about poverty and economic justice. Before joining the staff at Mississippi Today in September of 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 recognition for her work, including the 2020 Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award and the February 2020 Sidney Award for reporting on Mississippi’s debtors prisons, a first place 2020 Green Eyeshade Award for reporting on jobs, poverty and the Mississippi economy and the Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Journalism in 2019 and 2018 for reporting on unfair medical billing practices and hunger in the Mississippi Delta.

Scammers having an easier time accessing unemployment benefits than many legitimately jobless Mississippians

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe June 12, 2020September 28, 2020

Officials say they have received dozens of calls from Mississippians who say someone has used their information to file unemployment claims without their knowledge.

Despite some help, over half of Mississippi’s child care centers have closed as they struggle to remain solvent amid COVID-19

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe June 1, 2020January 11, 2021

How many jobless Mississippians are receiving unemployment benefits? State employment office won’t say.

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 28, 2020June 5, 2020

‘We’ve got to help those people’: A Q&A with Nancy New from 2018, while she was allegedly stealing millions of welfare dollars

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 22, 2020September 28, 2020

Nonprofit officials spent $400,000 in welfare dollars to lobby state government. Public education funding flowed their way.

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 19, 2020January 11, 2021

Feds: Mississippi must replace all misspent or stolen welfare money with state funds

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 14, 2020September 28, 2020

Mississippi welfare: What we bought versus what we could have bought

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 11, 2020December 14, 2020

Southern Miss knew Human Services funds paid for volleyball center construction, auditor found

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 8, 2020May 11, 2020

‘Increasingly absurd expenditures’: Newly-released audit questions $94 million in DHS spending

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 4, 2020January 11, 2021

Mississippi is fighting an uphill battle with jobless claims. A decades-long shift in employment strategy didn’t help.

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 3, 2020May 6, 2020

Shalondra Rollins was taking care of her health and climbing out of poverty. Why did she die of COVID-19?

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe April 23, 2020January 11, 2021

As Covid-19 rips through black communities, African American leaders demand inclusion on response teams

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe April 21, 2020May 2, 2020

Concussion drug company ensnared in welfare fraud scandal plans relocation to south Mississippi ‘medical city’

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe April 10, 2020April 13, 2020

COVID-19 and unemployment in Mississippi: Weekly updates

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe April 9, 2020July 23, 2020

Coronavirus is a ‘gendered crisis’ in Mississippi as the pandemic rocks woman-dominated professions

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe April 7, 2020January 11, 2021

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