That’s perhaps one of the first questions somebody might ask you because the answer tells them a lot. Where did you grow up, ...

Rep. Robert L. Johnson III, House Minority Leader, left, listens a Sen. Derrick T. Simmons, Senate Minority Leader, addresses reporters following a public hearing by Mississippi House and Senate ...

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Children’s Defense Fund analysis of new 2013 state data released by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals child poverty rates remain at record high levels, and Mississippi leads the ...

In 1967, Robert F. Kennedy was two years into his first term as a U.S. senator from New York. He wanted to carve out his own political identity and focus on issues he deeply cared about, one of which ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a white woman, violating the racial norms of the Jim ...

JONESTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the ...

The category may be slightly different, but the names of the unfortunate frontrunners are essentially identical. Yesterday's On Numbers focused on food stamps. Today's story deals with poverty rates.

The tour will make its first stop in Jackson and will feature discussions about the city’s ongoing water crisis. The Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour is making its way across the state of Mississippi ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s scandal-plagued welfare program turns away most applicants for cash assistance, and it has not been tracking whether its programs fulfill the goal of lifting people ...