20, JANUARY - JUNE 2009 Poverty in the Texas Borderland and Lowe... Poverty in the Texas Borderland and Lower Mississippi Delta: A comparative analysis of differences by family type This is the ...

The exclusion that Delta lawmakers feel from the state and the Mississippi Development Authority ... “The only way we really can rid this region of poverty is through equitable economic ...

A new report explores the disproportionately high death rate among Black women in the Delta from cervical cancer.

Nearly half of all Mississippi schools report at least one vacancy, with districts in the Delta, the northeast corner of the state ... but rural and high-poverty areas face unique difficulties.

The report, “No Excuse: Inadequate Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care for Black Women in the United States Mississippi Delta,” documents ... and highest rates of poverty in the entire United ...

But with its booming cotton economy, the Mississippi Delta still attracted a steady ... the croppers once had slipped away. Entrenched in poverty, sharecroppers began heading north for industrial ...