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The Mississippi Community Education Center used TANF funds to provide $5 million towards the construction of a volleyball stadium at University of Southern Mississippi (in the form of a brief lease for one event), paid a mortgage on a ranch in Flora, Mississippi, owned by former football player Marcus Dupree, and funded a fitness program run by ...
Mississippi's welfare scandal was at the center of a congressional hearing on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families reform Tuesday. Brett Favre was among the witnesses testifying in front of the ...
In Mississippi, where elected officials have a long history of praising self-sufficiency and condemning federal antipoverty programs, a welfare scandal has exposed how millions of dollars were ...
Mississippi Today reports that from 2016 to 2020, the state allocated $317 million total in TANF funds, meaning the misallocated portion accounted for nearly a quarter of the overall amount.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In Mississippi, where elected officials have a long history of praising self-sufficiency and condemning federal antipoverty programs, The post Brett Favre welfare scandal ...
In the eyes of many critics of the 1990s reforms, Mississippi’s scandal is a symptom of how TANF gutted welfare and replaced it with a system that they believe was intentionally designed to ...
State Auditor Shad White speaks during a signing for his new book, “Mississippi Swindle” at Lemuria in Jackson, Tuesday, Aug. 6. The book traces the Mississippi welfare scandal.
A group of U.S. Congressmen are requesting that Gov. Tate Reeves turn over documents detailing payments made to lawyers with welfare money in the largest welfare scandal in Mississippi history.