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State revenue is sluggish, but interest from federal COVID-19 money is buoying budget
Without interest earnings, the state would be collecting less revenue that it did the previous year.
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Lawmakers work to revive MAEP rewrite, PERS changes as session nears end
The House and Senate have been at loggerheads much of this legislative session over the school funding formula and government pension system.
Senate negotiators a no-show for second meeting with House on Medicaid expansion
Medicaid Chairman Kevin Blackwell says Senate is ‘working on a compromise’ on expansion.
Quotes: Republicans debating Medicaid expansion share thoughts on key meeting day
House and Senate Republicans still appeared far apart in a first public meeting attempting to find a compromise on Medicaid expansion
A coverage gap Catch-22: To work, Selinda Walker needs health care. To get health care, she needs work.
As lawmakers debate work requirements in Medicaid expansion bills, Walker faces a Catch-22: she first needs health insurance to get healthy enough to be able to return to work.
‘If you can’t vote, you’re nobody:’ Lawmakers hear from rehabilitated felons who still can’t exercise right
A Jim Crow-era provision in the state constitution imposes a permanent voting ban on people who have been convicted of certain felonies.
Mississippi Capitol sees second day of hundreds rallying for ‘full Medicaid expansion now’
‘We take hundreds of millions of federal dollars for highways, education, … law enforcement and natural disasters. But for some reason we push back on additional money for health care.’
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