OXFORD – A senior majoring in public policy leadership was the University of Mississippi’s first finalist for the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Chelsea Caveny of Hattiesburg recently traveled to Washington, D.C., for a final interview for the award, which funds one year of graduate study at any university in Ireland or Northern Ireland. ReadRead the story …
WTVA: UM Professor Quoted on Child Census Numbers
October 26, 2010 by
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Census figures show poverty has been rising among Mississippi children, with nearly one in every three living below the poverty line. The recent figures show that Mississippi’s child poverty rate of 31 percent is higher than any other state’s. That’s up from 30.4 percent in 2008. Read the story.