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Opinion  |  Sid Salter  • 
June 11, 2025

SNAP cuts in GOP bill will exacerbate state’s rural hunger and “food desert” problems

Columnist Sid Salter says nowhere are food deserts more real and visible than in rural Mississippi, and in those rural areas, none are bleaker than in the Mississippi Delta.
Opinion  |  Russ Latino  • 
June 10, 2025

State revenue, spending soared even as lawmakers cut taxes

Between 2017 -- the first fiscal year after the 2016 Taxpayer Pay Raise Act cut individual income taxes -- and 2024, general fund revenue collection in Mississippi increased by over $2 billion.