Influential Delta business group calls for Medicaid expansion

A major economic development organization that represents the 19 Mississippi Delta counties on Monday called for lawmakers to expand Medicaid.

‘It makes it hard to work’: The real cost of not expanding Medicaid in Mississippi

Briana Wright has worked all her adult life. The 27-year-old Kosciusko resident has been a crew member at McDonald’s for three years. Wright is stuck in what is commonly referred to as the healthcare coverage gap.

Resolving Jackson’s water woes rests on a plan, funding, and being ready ‘to pull the trigger’

The number one thing the city of Jackson needs to do to solve its water crisis?

Hire the right experts to develop a first-class plan so the city can get all the funding it needs to repair its crumbling system, said Rengao Song, a water quality and treatment expert who works as an adviser to the Louisville, Kentucky, city water system.

Jackson water plant still ‘a couple years’ from winter protection

Nearly one year ago, thousands of residents in Mississippi’s capital city without water for weeks when a winter storm shut down the city of Jackson’s main water treatment plant.

Mississippi could gain 21,700 jobs under Medicaid expansion

Expanding Medicaid in Mississippi will create roughly three times the number of jobs as the Nissan plant in Canton and the Toyota Motors Manufacturing plant in Blue Springs did combined, according to a national report released Thursday.
In Mississippi, of the 21,700 new jobs possibly created with Medicaid expansion, 12,500 of the jobs will be created in healthcare, 1,400 in construction, 2,600 in retail, 400 in finance and insurance and 4,900 in other sectors…