Mississippi earned an ‘F’ grade for its rate of preterm births in 2024, according to the 2025 report card from the March of ...

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.

Josh Clark and Judy Long get to the bottom of how a state historically limited in resources can have such scholarship and enlightenment.

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In a state historically known as a battleground for change, a new report reveals that the fruits of ...

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 ...

The tornado that ripped through a Mississippi town Friday night was the kind that fills meteorologists with dread — a storm with a dangerous mix of ingredients hitting the wrong place at the wrong ...

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — In a small village about an hour drive from Nairobi, Kenya, a mother pretends to begin preparations for dinner and prays for her children to fall asleep early before noticing ...

Mississippi Department of Human Services announced that full SNAP benefits will roll out in November. Here's what you need to ...

Mississippi Department of Human Services said people will get partial benefits through Nov. 21. The full amounts will be paid ...

Out of every 1,000 births, 9.7 Mississippi babies die before their first birthday, the highest rate in more than a decade.