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Darlene Smith pushes her 9-month-old son Martez on a swing at Freedom Ridges park in Ridgeland on Saturday, September 18, 2021. Smith, a single mom, hasn't had child care since the state pushed her off the Child Care Payment Program, which offers assistance to low-income working parents, earlier this year. Credit: Anna Wolfe/Mississippi Today

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Thousands of Mississippi parents lost child care assistance during pandemic as state hoards federal relief
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,09/20/21-12:06PM , 1,195 Reads 20,081 Statewide
A supervisor called Darlene Smith at her work-from-home office one afternoon this summer, wondering why she’d taken her 30-minute lunch break 30 minutes early.

She was changing her 6-month-old’s diaper and tending to her rambunctious 6-year-old.
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Yvonne Moore, left, and Christy Carmichael collect specimen for COVID-19 testing outside of the Aaron E Henry Community Health Services Center in Clarksdale, Miss., Wednesday, March 29, 2020. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Mississippi leads the nation in COVID- 19 deaths per capita and use of monoclonal antibody treatments
By WILL STRIBLING - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,09/16/21-5:54PM , 976 Reads 14,099 Statewide
While Mississippi is no longer last in its vaccination rate against COVID-19, the state is now leading the nation in COVID-19 deaths per capita.
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History Is Lunch: Robert H. Mayer, "In the Name of Emmett Till"
By PRESS RELEASE - MDAH
Thu,09/16/21-4:42PM , 927 Reads 17,644 Statewide
On September 15, 2021, Robert H. Mayer discussed his new book In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow as part of the History Is Lunch series.
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Mississippi Ranks 35th in the Nation for K-12 Achievement in Quality Counts National Report
By PRESS RELEASE - MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Thu,09/16/21-3:12PM , 700 Reads 11,521 Statewide
Below is a press release from the Mississippi Department of Education:
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