17 Jan South Mississippi nonprofits help break the cycle of debt

Posted at January 17, 2013 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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26 Dec BankPlus takes on Mississippi payday lenders

Posted at December 26, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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05 Dec Mortgage help brings holiday hope in DeSoto

Posted at December 05, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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04 Dec Social change promoted through film and television at USM Gulf Park festival

Posted at December 04, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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16 Nov Portion of $4.5 billion criminal fine will benefit Mississippi

Posted at November 16, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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02 Nov Biloxi Blues: Legal-cost fears have victims of the oil spill sliding out of the middle class

Posted at November 02, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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24 Oct MISSISSIPPI ROAD TRIP: The ancestors inside us and the precious right to vote

Posted at October 24, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

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...

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18 Oct Mississippi needs Medicaid expansion

Posted at October 18, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

Published in the Clarion Ledger In the Oct. 10 article, “Bryant: Federal health law hurts Miss. economy,” Gov. Phil Bryant repeated his opposition to expanding Medicaid. As health law director for the Mississippi Center for Justice, I know that expanding Medicaid will not only help hundreds of...

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17 Oct Attorney General Jim Hood announces formation of the Mississippi Foreclosure Prevention Consortium

Posted at October 17, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

Mississippi Attorney General Jackson, MS-Attorney General Jim Hood announced that his office has created the Mississippi Foreclosure Prevention Consortium to assist homeowners who are struggling as a result of the foreclosure crisis. The consortium was created through funding provided under the National Mortgage Settlement that was...

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03 Oct Evers, Winters: Mississippi Moving Forward, But …

Posted at October 03, 2012 in In the News by Mississippi Center for Justice

Jackson Free Press Dustin Cardon, Donna Ladd, Ronni Mott Few eyes were dry when Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Jackson civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, stood in front of 600 people in downtown Jackson Thursday night and declared her love for Mississippi and for her first husband, gunned...

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