Clarion Ledger By Marni von Wilpert Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and to honor it here in Mississippi, we need to dedicate ourselves to doing more to provide access to health care, housing and employment for people with HIV/AIDS. This year marks the 13th...
Mississippi Public Broadcasting Air date 03/02/12 How will the coming changes in Mississippi’s health care system affect your children? Wesley Prater, a senior health analyst at Georgetown University, explains how the Obama health care bill will provide coverage for more kids. In 2014, more than half of...
Mississippi Public Broadcasting Published by Daniel Cherry After years of decline, foreclosures are again on the rise across the country. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports how even though Mississippi remains less impacted than most states, residents facing foreclosure have a tough road ahead. Mississippi ranked 44th in the nation...
89.9 WNNO, NPR affiliate By EILEEN FLEMING As government and corporate representatives negotiate damages stemming from the BP oil spill, legal aid advocates are noting hundreds of low-income residents are stuck in filing damage claims of their own. Lawyers are setting up a system to ensure a...
As part of the American Bar Association's annual midwinter meeting, Martha Bergmark, Mississippi Center for Justice president and CEO, participated in a discussion about the current state of funding for legal services and strategies for ensuring access to justice amid economic crisis....
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...
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...
