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Behind First Lady Reeves’ “Fred the Turtle” is a little-known religious welfare initiative slowly receiving public funding
Mississippi’s First Lady Elee Reeves has received much media coverage lately for her children’s book, Fred the Turtle. Behind the scenes, a new nonprofit is using public and private grant funds to print copies of the book.
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Watchdog blasts welfare agency over its multi-million dollar child support contract
A Mississippi watchdog committee questioned whether child support contractor YoungWilliams received preferential treatment.
Pandemic funds could fix Mississippi’s troubled workforce child care program
The influx of hundreds of millions of dollars would appear to be a godsend for the struggling workforce child care program.
Podcast: Federal funds provide opportunity to fix child care program for working parents
Mississippi’s voucher program to help single working parents has been underfunded and difficult to navigate because of red tape. Carol Burnett and Matt Williams of the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative explain how an influx of federal pandemic stimulus dollars could help.
Thousands of Mississippi parents lost child care assistance during pandemic as state hoards federal relief
Thousands of Mississippi parents have lost their child care certificate during the COVID-19 pandemic, even while the state hoards over half-a-billion in unspent federal child care dollars.
This office used to be a front for alleged welfare fraud. Now it’s a child care resource center.
The Department of Human Services opened a new resource center in a space that previously served as a front for alleged welfare fraud.
Stimulus packages offer big boost for Mississippi parents in need of child care
The latest federal stimulus packages will provide enough child care assistance to cover almost 80% of eligible families in Mississippi.
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