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Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 14, 2020

OP-ED: Speed up Mississippi

By: Todd “Ike” Kiefer The current Coronavirus crisis reveals how desperately Mississippi needs universal access to distance learning and telemedicine (DLT). We are a very rural state with a population of only 30 people per square mile outside of our few cities. Our schools, clinics, universities, hospitals, and private practitioners have largely stepped up to…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
May 14, 2020

Jackie Turner talks unemployment claims during COVID-19 pandemic with Y’all Politics

Executive Director Jackie Turner of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security spoke with Y’all Politics about the current state of MDES and massive amount of unemployment claims they have received. Before the COVID pandemic hit, Turner said Mississippi was seeing an exceptionally good economy, which meant lower amounts of unemployment claims. “We were seeing about…