Sun Herald By ANITA LEE - calee@sunherald.com GULFPORT -- A coalition of community groups large and small is asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to demand repayment of federal funds already spent on state port expansion. Attorney Reilly Morse told a group of about 100...
Joint report from First Focus and the Brookings Institution underscores ability to use child poverty as an indicator for recession recovery in the United States. The report utilizes statistics from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
Port Restoration an Economic Disappointment and Likely Environmental Burden for Mississippi Restoration Will Produce a Net Gain of Only 330 Direct Jobs over Pre-Storm Workforce and Have Significant Negative Environmental Impacts At a community event held Friday, Dec. 9, the Steps Coalition and its partners in the recently...
Washington – First Focus and the Mississippi Center for Justice released a new report today, showing that funding to help Mississippi manage the growing problem of child poverty lags behind that of other states like Massachusetts and Alaska. It also recommends concrete actions Mississippi’s Congressional delegation can...
The Clarion-Ledger Written by Gary Pettus Back when Joyce Kamwana was diagnosed with HIV, it was considered "equal to death," she said. More than 20 years later, Kamwana, an HIV survivor with two children, is on a mission to ensure the virus that leads to AIDS does not...
By ANITA LEE - calee@sunherald.com GULFPORT -- Residents have asked state port officials for more than a year to track the number and kinds of jobs a massive port expansion will create. The federal government is now demanding it. The port is expected to receive a total...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GULFPORT, Miss. — The federal government is now demanding that Gulfport state port officials start to track the number and type of jobs a $621 million port expansion will create. The port is expected to receive a total of $621 million in Community Development...
The Southeastern United States is experiencing the highest rate of new HIV/AIDS infections, says the executive summary of a research report released by The Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI). The report takes a close look at nine southern states that have been particularly hard hit by the...
Backward laws and ignorant legislators make Mississippi an especially deadly place to be sick By Irin Carmon, salon.com Recently, an elderly woman in Mississippi was left alone on the curb outside a hospital emergency room. The woman didn’t have a medical emergency. She’d been dumped by...
Sun Herald By ANITA LEE - calee@sunherald.com GULFPORT -- The last Katrina recovery program for homeowners, the Neighborhood Home Program, is behind schedule but repairs should begin next month on the first of thousands of homes. Irene Walker, 83, has been living with family members since the hurricane...
