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The ‘hungriest county’
By BILL CRAWFORD - Contributing Columnist
Thu,04/15/21-2:00AM , 1375 Reads
JACKSON — With unemployment decreasing, jobs growing and state tax revenues up, rosy days lie ahead for Mississippi’s economy. “The outlook for our economy is pretty optimistic for the state and for the nation,” State Economist Corey Miller told Mississippi Today.
But not for all parts of the state.
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Witless on Medicaid
By BILL CRAWFORD - Contributing Columnist
Thu,04/08/21-2:00AM , 1483 Reads
JACKSON — Hard-headed and hard-hearted Mississippi leaders can’t do math. So wrote Greenwood Commonwealth Editor Tim Kalich regarding Mississippi’s stand against Medicaid expansion
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Case for conservation
By BILL CRAWFORD - Contributing Columnist
Thu,03/25/21-1:30AM , 1205 Reads
JACKSON — While the media tends to portray Republicans as environmental exploiters, history shows a more balanced reality. From Republican Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and George W.
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Innovative learning
By BILL CRAWFORD - Contributing Columnist
Fri,03/19/21-1:00AM , 810 Reads
JACKSON — Incessant innovation is the key to economic growth, suggested Martin Wolf in The Financial Times. “Historical experience confirms that growth is a race to the top,” he wrote. “It means exploiting new opportunities that generate enduring advantages in high-productivity sectors and so high wages.”
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