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April 25, 2008

Barbour: Housing still an issue

The Mississippi Press, 4/25/8 More than two years after Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Haley Barbour said Thursday, “the most pressing issue still facing Mississippians is finding affordable, permanent housing.” His comments followed an awards ceremony at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum, where he recognized 40 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Mississippi Emergency…
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April 25, 2008

How Mississippi passed the country’s biggest crackdown on immigrant workers

The Institute for Southern States, 4/25/8 Over the last few years, a quiet but powerful alliance in Mississippi of African-American lawmakers, immigrant rights advocates and labor unions had successfully defeated a series of punitive bills aimed at the state’s fast-growing Latino and new immigrant population. But last month, that string of victories came to an…