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March 9, 2009

It’s a no-brainer: Take the money

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/8/9 Mississippi’s unemployment rate jumped to an alarming 9.2 percent in January. When February numbers are released they probably won’t be much better. Nationally, the latest numbers show an unemployment rate of 8 percent with many experts predicting the rate will soon hit double digits. They are staggering statistics that provide irrefutable…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 9, 2009

Who spends the stimulus not yet clear

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/8/9 One of the basic precepts of the American form of government is that the legislative branch controls the purse strings. That is what Republican Gov. Haley Barbour successfully argued when he blocked funds from the settlement of the state’s lawsuit against the tobacco companies from being diverted to the…