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November 18, 2013

AP analysis: Mississippi PERS results mixed based on accounting

AP analysis: Mississippi PERS results mixed based on accounting Mississippi’s public employee pension fund saw its financial position improve last year. Or it didn’t. It’s all in the accounting. And depending on which set of numbers you look at, results for the Public Employees Retirement System are either negative or positive for the 12 months…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 18, 2013

Number of Food Stamp recipients have doubled in Harrison and Hancock counties since 2007

Harrison and Hancock counties Food Stamp recipients have doubled since 2007 Many American families will be facing Thanksgiving with a smaller food budget. Benefits shrank an average of 5 percent for the more than 46 million people who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after an economic-stimulus package expired Nov. 1. On the Coast,…