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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 9, 2007

SCHIP program focuses attention on how we define ‘poverty’

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/9/7 The State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, is a partnership between the federal government and the states to fund and provide health insurance for children in mostly working families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage. States set their own income eligibility…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 9, 2007

Barbour might be open to cigarette tax hike next term

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 5/9/7 Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday he would be open to an increase in the cigarette tax during his second term if it is part of an overall package that provides “a significant tax cut” for Mississippians. During the past two legislative sessions, the Republican governor has blocked legislation that…

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