“It was ongoing. Mississippi was long since poor, long devastated. I took the pictures of our poverty because that was reality.” Prints from this period were featured in her two-week solo show ...

More than a third of Mississippi children are stranded in poverty — higher than during the Great Recession. “Recovery from the recession is extremely hard for families that were on the verge ...

there's the Mississippi Delta. The region was once rich with cotton production but also extreme poverty, with land predominantly held by white plantation owners and worked (under brutal conditions ...

The black and white pictures, collected in the book Still ... if anything, has changed. Poverty in the Mississippi Delta. Video, 00:01:40Poverty in the Mississippi Delta Up Next.

Images of devastation have emerged from Mississippi, where a tornado has killed at least 25 people. The town of Rolling Fork, where 20% of residents live below the poverty line, was virtually ...

Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Mississippi News Connection reporting ... income countries in the proportion of kids living in poverty at over 16%. The good news is that these issues ...

Among just children in poverty, Mississippi fourth graders now are tied for best performers in the nation in NAEP reading tests and rank second in math. The state has also lifted high school ...

California, Florida, and Mississippi are the three states with the highest percent of residents living in poverty. These represent an interesting mix of regions that economists don’t typically ...

The black and white pictures, collected in the book ... Nationwide, 14.3% of Americans lived in poverty in 2009. In Mississippi, the figure was 22%, and in some counties in the Delta, it was ...

The town of Rolling Fork, where 20% of residents live below the poverty line, was virtually flattened on Friday. Image source, Reuters Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker told CNN: "My city is gone.