2015/04/16 – Mississippi residents converged on Jackson this month to push for a $15 minimum hourly wage and union representation for fast-food and other low-wage workers. The movement arrived on the heels of McDonald’s executives announcing a pay increase for workers …..
2015/04/16 – Dr. Cedrick Gray, the superintendent of Jackson Public Schools, seems to be proving tight-fisted Mississippi lawmakers right when they say it doesn’t necessarily take throwing money at schools to improve education. Gray, who has been with JPS since 2012, …..
2015/04/16 – Mississippi politicians love to crow about the state’s low taxes and, in the most recent legislative session, tried unsuccessfully to empty the treasury even more. Yet, a new report out today from financial-information website WalletHub shows that Mississippi taxpayers, the …..
2015/04/15 – It’s been just over a week since the Mississippi Legislature wrapped up work for this year’s legislative session, and two local lawmakers are not seeing eye-to-eye on some issues involving education. “We have done everything we could to cripple …..
2015/04/15 – Organizers are calling it the largest-ever mobilization of U.S. workers seeking higher pay. That’s yet to be determined. But what began on Tuesday with several low-wage worker protests and marches in Boston and Detroit expanded nationwide on Wednesday beginning …..
