Mississippi

Read JSRI’s 2009 profile of poverty and inequality in the State of Mississippi »

A sample of the profile follows:

Who are Mississippi’s Poor?

• 228,572 are children (30.4% of kids)
• 59,164 are elders (16.9% of seniors)
• 313,881 are adults 18-64 (18.1 % of adults)
• 293,875 are in female-headed families (44.2% of such families)

Looked at another way:

• 256,082 males are poor (18.6 % males)
• 345,535 females are poor (23.6 % of females)
• 210,132 whites are poor (12.3 % of whites)
• 371,883 blacks are poor (35.2 % of blacks)
• 13,281 Hispanics are poor (24.8% of Hispanics)
• 10,843 immigrants are poor (19.1 % of foreign-born)

Dr. Alex Mikulich is the lead JSRI liaison to Mississippi groups, assisted by other staff as appropriate.

Particular articles of note are:

• Mississippi Rejects Immigration Enforcement Bill--Weishar [JustSouth Quarterly, Summer 2012]
• Immigration Enforcement Bill Fails to Pass in Mississippi, None Proposed in Louisiana Legislature -- Weishar [JustSouth E-News, April 2012]
• Not Good Law or Good Sense: Proposed Mississippi Immigration Legislation Through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching -- Weishar [JustSouth E-Newsletter--February 2012]
• A Welcoming Church: Mississippi Congregation Reaches out After Devastating Immigration Raid--Weishar [JustSouth Quarterly, Summer 2011]
• Religious leaders call Mississippians to end predatory lending--Pending bill continues debt trap for low-income borrowers--Mikulich [JustSouth E-Newsletter, January 2011]
• Mississippi's missed Katrina recovery—Kammer [JustSouth E-Newsletter, August 2010]

Related organizations

• Catholic Social and Community Services of Biloxi
• Foundation for the Mid South
• Inside Mississippi
• Jackson Catholic Charities
• Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA)
• Mississippi Center for Justice
• Mississippi Economic Policy Center
• Mississippi Health Advocacy Program
• Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference
• Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
• Public Policy Center of Mississippi

 

Banner Photograph: Depression era cotton pickers in Mississippi.