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Apr 28

Can a Harlem ‘cradle to career’ program succeed in rural Mississippi?

By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education. INDIANOLA, Miss. — Katrice Warren was away at college when she learned she was pregnant. She decided not…

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Mar 20

States to test ways to get food stamp recipients back to work

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Ten states will test new ways to get food stamp recipients back to work, using Agriculture Department grants aimed at helping some of the 46 million Americans who receive benefits move off the rolls.

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Mar 20

Federal authorities say no foul play in death of black man hanging in a tree in Mississippi

By Laura Santhanam

A black man was found hanging in a tree in Mississippi, and now federal and state investigators are trying to determine if his death was a suicide or homicide.

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Feb 14

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Viewers respond to manufacturing boom in Columbus, Mississippi

By PBS News Hour

Alison Stewart reads viewer comments about a recent report about a manufacturing boom in the South that has prompted several international companies to open up shop in places like Columbia, Miss., which has been suffering under the effects of poverty…

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Feb 06

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Will new manufacturing ease Mississippi’s ‘psychosis of poverty?’

By PBS News Hour

In Mississippi, where the unemployment rate peaks at 15 percent in some areas, pockets of new manufacturing have ignited hopes for an economic rebirth. And while signs of growth give some people hope for a new era, how much will…

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Sep 26

Tea party challenger in Mississippi Senate race not going down easy

By Quinn Bowman

Three months ago, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran shocked the political world by winning a Republican primary runoff against his tea party challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel. But the story isn't over. The McDaniel campaign is challenging the results of the…

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Sep 26

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Tea party Senate challenge in Mississippi shows rift in the GOP

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The intense primary battle between veteran Republican Sen. Thad Cochran and state senator Chris McDaniel in Mississippi shows that the rift between the populist tea party and the establishment wing of the GOP is not yet healed. And the general…

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Aug 08

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Need persists for new generation of Freedom Schools, 50 years after first summer

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Aug 08

When Mississippi schools wouldn’t integrate, Freedom Schools opened doors

By April Brown, Mike Fritz

In the summer of 1964, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans in the state. Many of the volunteers worked in the dozens of newly created Freedom Schools. Herbert Randall,…

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Jul 17

McDaniel campaign expected to challenge runoff election loss within 10 days

By Paul Boger, Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Although it's been three weeks since the Republican primary runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, tea party challenger Chris McDaniels is not ready to concede to six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran. Cochran won that election by nearly…

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