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Humphreys County, where four out of ten people live in poverty, is the single most heavily audited county in the nation.
Most suffrage bills in 15 years make their way to the governor’s desk after a push by Angela Turner-Ford in the Senate and Angela Cockerham in the House.
Report: All 82 Mississippi counties have health issues, but some fare better than others. Food deserts, child poverty and median income are the strongest indicators of a county’s health outcomes.
New study finds that 31 of Mississippi’s 64 rural hospitals face “high financial risk,” a combination of poor profits, high debt and low cash reserves.
In several districts in Mississippi, a fifth of teachers are uncertified. One reason is that teacher candidates struggle to meet certification requirements. After years in which little action has been taken to address the teacher shortage crisis, the state recently took steps to help more candidates qualify to become teachers.
Two years after a national report ranked Mississippi last in the nation for patient protection, Mississippi Today and WLBT examined thousands of doctor disciplinary records and found a lack of transparency in dealing with problem doctors and an agency slow to enact patient safeguards.
In the past 20 years, the number of uncertified teachers in Mississippi’s schools has increased. But in the state’s poorest schools, many of them in the Delta, the numbers far exceed the state average.
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‘Unfortunately there’s been no overall strategy for the creation of state aid programs,’ director says
With other abortion cases pending, the amount is likely to increase
Despite obstacles, Mississippi enrollment in the Affordable Care Act is steady compared to last year
A state road engineer is concerned that school buses and other vehicles might ignore bridge weight limits
Experts say better to input regulations now while fewer hybrids, electric vehicles are on the road as gas tax revenue fails to meet transportation needs.
The persistent myth that felony convictions automatically result in lost voting rights means that thousands of people may be eligible to vote and not realize it
Counties have their reasons for closing polling precincts, but since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, no one is asking