"I will plow a straight furrow, right down to the end of the row."- John C. Stennis
The View As I have attempted to wipe away the fog of the recession I have struggled mightily lately with my fears about the future of Mississippi and other states like it. What is the message that we – the profoundly rural – are being sent, and how much of it should we heed?
State and Local Legal Blog Remember the National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs Geographic Literacy Study? In 2006, Young Americans (18 – 24) answered about half (54 percent) of all the survey questions correctly. But by and large, majorities of young adults fail at a range of questions testing their basic geographic literacy. Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a [...]
Phil Hardwick's Blog From an article in the Washington Times - In a race testing racial harmony in Georgia's largest city, some veteran black power brokers say their hold on power is being undercut by their past successes running the city. "We haven't always gotten the credit for that, no," said former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who oversaw the early days of the city's rebirth during the 1980s. "I brought in 1,100 companies from around the world - $70 billion in...
Civic Education Blog On August 25, 1916 the United States Department of the Interior established the National Park Service. The State of Mississippi has multiple NPS sites, including Brices Crossroads, the Natchez Trace, the city of Natchez (multiple sites), the Tupelo National Battlefield, and the Vicksburg National Military Park. These sites are national treasures and provide wonderful learning [...]
Lift Your Voice: Engaging Black America Today is election day; and all eyes intently focus on three states–with New Jersey and Virginia voters heading to the polls in governors’ races and New York holding a special election for a House seat. ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper describes the political scene: “With Democrats poised to lose the governor’s race in Virginia, and [...]
Post-Katrina Recovery Oral Histories presents a series of interviews conducted with Gulf Coast affordable housing advocates discussing the obstacles to and successes of Katrina Recovery. Mississippi Development Authority Recover Action Plans and allocations, the HUD CDBG lawsuit, as well as the continuing problem with property insurance rates are discussed.
The Institute actively uses the national O*NET job analysis and classification system, not only to inform the analysis of the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform each occupational position within the organization, but to also provide comparable, real-time salary data (updated every three months) as provided by state departments of labor (or equivalent organizations) to the United States Department of Labor, and various state and national statistical entities, including the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Analysis of School District Expenditures by Category and Student Outcomes on Standardized Tests for Fiscal Year 2007 - 2008. The document contains maps by school district of Instructional, General Administration, School Administration, and "Other" Instructional and Non-instructional expenditures.
Founding fathers and authors, for example, of The Federalist Papers, spent little time on the issue of ethics. Integrity in a century of recognition of “natural law” was something seemingly inborn. Thus began the long and distinguished history of the United States’ upper and lower legislative chambers.
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