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☆ Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price.
  + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Sarah Fowler | Rory Doyle | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In winter 2021, more than 150,000 people living in Jackson, Miss., were left without running water. For weeks, people across the city lost the water they normally relied on to drink, cook and bathe. Lawmakers criticized city officials for ignoring leaky pipes and failing to collect payments from customers. City officials pointed to Jackson’s shrinking population and decades of economic decline. And they said state officials, mostly white and Republican, had starved the mostly Black, Democratic city of resources.
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☆ Mississippi banned most abortions to be the 'safest state' for the unborn. Meanwhile, one in three Mississippi kids lives in poverty.
  + stars: | 2021-11-26 | by ( Sarah Fowler | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +16 min
Mississippi lawmakers said the ban on most abortions after 15 weeks makes Mississippi 'the safest state in the country' for the unborn. "We've had so many state leaders who have talked about wanting Mississippi to be the safest state in the country for unborn babies. It's even higher for kids: one in three Mississippi children live in poverty. Each of the women has dedicated their life to helping Mississippi women and families. More than 100,000 Mississippi children should be eligible, but in 2019 – the most recent year for which there's data – just 20,900 benefited from the program.
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