New Orleans City Business Maria Clark, staff writer Martha Bergmark, founding president of the Mississippi Center for Justice, is on a mission. She’s currently trying to raise awareness that money should be in place at the national level for legal services in the aftermath of a natural...
Published in the Mississippi Business Journal Gov. Phil Bryant’s pronouncement last week that hospital emergency room access ensures that all Mississippians have health care reflects a poor understanding of how healthcare works for many of the state’s families, the Mississippi Center for Justice says Replying to Bryant’s...
Sun Herald Priscilla Loebenberg GULFPORT -- Local nonprofits and volunteers got a preview Wednesday at the Knight Nonprofit Center of a new campaign to help educate those in financial difficulty on the pitfalls of payday loans and predatory lenders. The campaign began with a $50,000 grant from the...
Published in American Banker Magazine Laura Thompson Osuri As the operators of a community bank in the state with the most payday lenders per capita (32 for every 100,000 people), executives at BankPlus in Belzoni, Miss., are characteristically appalled at the exorbitant rates that payday lenders charge. But...
Published in The Commercial Appeal Henry Bailey Mississippi Special Assistant Attorney General Bridgette Wiggins was in Hernando Tuesday morning to address and meet with citizens at a mortgage-assistance session for distressed homeowners in DeSoto County. Wiggins (left) is seen conferring with Foreclosure Staff Attorney Charles Lee, of...
Published in the Sun Herald Prisclila Loebenberg LONG BEACH -- Television producers led off the Social Change Film Festival and Institute on Monday at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus with a workshop designed to teach participants how to use video in support of social...
Published in the Sun Herald A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil company agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government over the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the...
American Bar Association Journal Rachel M. Zahorsky That was it. Nothing more could be done. Two years after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, Tina Copeland’s American dream was over. Her Mississippi Gulf Coast business was hemorrhaging funds, her marriage torn apart. Though billions were offered to settle...
Published in Shore Magazine Denise DeClue “The past is never dead,” wrote Mississippi writer William Faulkner. "It’s not even past.” I grew up in Missouri, digging up Civil War relics and arrowheads from the nearby woods and thought it was the Midwest until I came north and realized...
-Still more than 60,000 children who lack health insurance statewide -Research shows that covering parents helps children get coverage (Jackson, Miss.) – The United States made meaningful progress in reducing the rate of uninsured children, according to a new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children...
