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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
December 21, 2018

MCPP: Mississippians Gave $1.8 Billion To Charity Last Year

As many prepare for end-of-year charitable contributions, data from the Internal Revenue Service continues to show Mississippi as one of the most charitable states in the country. According to the IRS, some 250,000 Mississippians took an itemized deduction for charitable giving last year. The average deduction in the Magnolia State was $7,135. This is the…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
December 19, 2018

SALTER: Christmas holiday’s bounty belies hard realities of poverty, hunger in Mississippi

By: Sid Salter Perhaps if I were a preacher, which I’m decidedly not, and I offered a sermon, which this decidedly isn’t, I’d call it: “Christmas and The Farm Bill.” While most of us in this country and in this state celebrate the birth of Christ with family feasts that call Norman Rockwell paintings to…