Jan 09 Watch 6:54 In Mississippi, a long-running guaranteed income program is helping Black mothers By Zachary Green In the U.S. 30% of families headed by Black mothers live below the poverty line. But one initiative in Mississippi is trying to address that problem with a guaranteed income program Magnolia Mother’s Trust is giving $1,000 a month to… Continue watching
Dec 13 Uncertainty overwhelms abortion clinics in Louisiana By Roby Chavez The possibility of an imminent Supreme Court decision allowing states to further restrict access has pushed the wait for people seeking abortions in Louisiana to several weeks. Continue reading
Dec 02 The Supreme Court Justices’ remarks on abortion and how they might lean: Will Roe be overturned? By Associated Press The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. Continue reading
Dec 01 Outside Supreme Court, crowd amplifies abortion arguments By Parker Purifoy, Associated Press Hundreds of abortion debate partisans crowded the plaza in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, intermingling and trading chants as justices heard the highly anticipated arguments inside. Continue reading
Dec 01 Mississippi clinic at epicenter of abortion debate stays open By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press The Jackson Women's Health Organization saw patients two or three days a week in recent years, but has doubled its hours to treat women from Texas and from Louisiana. Continue reading
Nov 22 Mississippi loses Supreme Court water fight with Tennessee By Associated Press A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected a claim that the Memphis, Tennessee, area has been taking water that belongs to Mississippi from an underground aquifer that sits beneath parts of both states. Continue reading
Sep 01 WATCH: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves gives update on Hurricane Ida impact By News Desk Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured late Monday when seven vehicles plunged, one after another, into a deep hole where a dark, rural highway collapsed as Hurricane Ida blew through Mississippi. Continue reading
Aug 11 Tensions over school mask mandates roil this Mississippi town By Laura Santhanam The simple back-to-school precaution of masking has become a source of controversy in Mississippi and around the country as millions of students prepare to enter the academic year and rates of COVID-19 infection soar. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch 8:31 Combining job training, child care could be ‘magic road’ to single moms’ economic security By Cat Wise, Emily Carpeaux, Murrey Jacobson, Kate McMahon Special correspondent Cat Wise and producer Kate McMahon report from Mississippi, where many working parents struggled to find affordable, quality child care long before the pandemic. Among the most impacted: single mothers who are often stuck in low-paying jobs and… Continue watching
Jul 06 ‘Now our people are at risk,’ Rep. Bennie Thompson says of Mississippi’s failure to take government funding for vaccination efforts By Matt Loffman, Alex D'Elia “Our governor refused to take the FEMA money to go out and identify those vulnerable areas,” Thompson told PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff in an interview Tuesday. Continue reading