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Category: Money

Former DOR director: Mississippi is losing ‘tens of millions’ in uncollected business taxes each year

Geoff Pender by Geoff Pender July 27, 2020January 11, 2021

A COVID-19 relief program highlights a major concern: Many businesses don’t pay taxes, and the Department of Revenue lacks the manpower to audit and collect.

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

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

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

Coronavirus: How Mississippi’s major private employers are responding

Mississippi Today by Mississippi Today March 16, 2020March 20, 2020

Fact check: Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves’ claims about jobs and the Mississippi economy

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe October 8, 2019January 11, 2021

Workforce leaders spin key report, overstate Mississippi’s role as leader in growing jobs for workers without college degrees

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe September 16, 2019October 2, 2019

A Jackson group formed to get black mothers out of jail. Now, they want to abolish cash bail

Michelle Liu by Michelle Liu June 25, 2019January 11, 2021

NSPARC, a taxpayer-funded data center, charged $27,750 for public records request

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 24, 2019May 30, 2019

Waging a living: How Mississippi’s abundant low-wage workers earn less today than 50 years ago

Anna Wolfe by Anna Wolfe May 21, 2019January 11, 2021

Clarksdale’s new 20-room artist-run hotel hopes to spark a downtown economic boom

Aallyah Wright by Aallyah Wright March 8, 2019January 11, 2021

Cleveland hoteliers moving forward without Trump, keeping $6 million in tax breaks

Kelsey Davis BetzBobby Harrison by Kelsey Davis Betz and Bobby Harrison February 15, 2019February 15, 2019

‘If the government shuts down, we’ll do it again’: Vicksburg military park kept open, and 19,000 visitors showed up

Alex Rozier by Alex Rozier February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

Clarksdale ‘brought home the bacon,’ and landed a new grocer seen as vital to the Delta town’s economy

Aallyah Wright by Aallyah Wright January 31, 2019June 6, 2019

How Mississippi’s financial aid programs reached a ‘tipping point’

Kelsey Davis Betz by Kelsey Davis Betz January 18, 2019June 13, 2019

‘This is our moment’: Tech firm’s Delta move lifts hopes of economic revival in region

Aallyah Wright by Aallyah Wright December 31, 2018June 6, 2019

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