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Study: Mississippi tax laws place higher burden on people of color
Black and Hispanic Mississippians pay a larger percentage of income in state and local taxes than higher earning white Mississippians, a new study says.
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Q&A with two Mississippi teens fighting period poverty in their communities
601 for Period Equity delivers free menstrual hygiene products to people in need in the Jackson and Vicksburg areas.
These Black residents are led by an all-Black local government. But there’s still a ‘race problem.’
Representatives from the Freedom Democratic Party gathered Monday in Holmes County to demand removal of a Confederate monument, but residents are fed up with much more than the stone sculpture.
Senate committee approves Mississippi’s first welfare check increase since 1999
A Senate committee passed a bill Wednesday that would increase monthly welfare checks from $170 per month to $260 for a family of three.
Mississippians saddled with $507 million in criminal justice debts, preventing future opportunity
In 2019, people who had touched the criminal justice system in Mississippi held $507 million in debt as a result — more than double the $243 million they owed in 2009, according to a new report.
Here’s what lawmakers could do to transform Mississippi’s troubled child support program
We talked to eight experts about what lawmakers and other state officials could do to improve Mississippi’s fraught child support program.
Mississippi evictions never stopped despite federal moratorium and COVID-19 relief
Under a federal eviction moratorium during COVID-19, landlords in Jackson sued even more tenants each day than they did in previous years.
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