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News  |  Jeremy Pittari  • 
March 27, 2026

Mississippi lawmakers agree on $2,000 teacher pay raise

"Tight state budget" given as reason for reduced amount of teacher pay raises after the House and Senate touted significantly higher competing proposals.
News  |  Michelle L. Price, Associated Press  • 
March 27, 2026

Vance holds first meeting of a new anti-fraud task force targeting benefit programs

The Republican vice president says the federal government for decades had not taken fraud seriously and it needed to be tackled with “a whole-government approach.”