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Providing Food Assistance In A Pandemic: Views And Lessons Learned From The Frontlines In Northwest Mississippi, Anna M. Kleiner, John J. Green, Anne Cafer, Meagen Rosenthal, Lynn Woo, Caroline Steil
Providing Food Assistance In A Pandemic: Views And Lessons Learned From The Frontlines In Northwest Mississippi, Anna M. Kleiner, John J. Green, Anne Cafer, Meagen Rosenthal, Lynn Woo, Caroline Steil
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The Center for Population Studies (CPS) at the University of Mississippi (UM) has partnered with the Maddox Foundation (Hernando, MS) and the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi (CFNM) to explore changes in communities across an 11-county region as a way to identify funding priorities designed to address challenges and build upon assets in the region. With a grant from the Maddox Foundation, the CFNM launched FEED Northwest Mississippi to provide emergency funding for area food pantries, especially ones located in rural areas (CFNM 2020). This initiative has now expanded with a host of additional contributors to the FEED Fund. Results …
Covid-19 Response: Resources For Small And Mid-Size Farms In Mississippi, Emily Broad Leib, Alex Ramsey, Emma I. Scott
Covid-19 Response: Resources For Small And Mid-Size Farms In Mississippi, Emily Broad Leib, Alex Ramsey, Emma I. Scott
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The COVID-19 pandemic presents a number of new and difficult challenges for families, small business owners, and food producers across the country. This Issue Brief provides an overview of the resources available to small and mid-size farms facing such challenges in Mississippi. The first section outlines current benefit programs that these farms can utilize, including loans and unemployment benefits, as a result of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and related federal actions. The second section provides policies that the State of Mississippi could enact to provide additional assistance to farms dealing with the crisis.
Covid‐19 Response: Feeding Mississippi Children During School Closure, Emily Broad Leib, Suzanne Donahue, Emma I. Scott
Covid‐19 Response: Feeding Mississippi Children During School Closure, Emily Broad Leib, Suzanne Donahue, Emma I. Scott
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Across the country, states have needed to use school closures and remote learning as strategies for reducing the spread of COVID‐19. On April 14, 2020, Mississippi leaders announced that children would stay home from their school facilities for the rest of the academic year. Extended school closures make it difficult to meet children’s nutritional needs: students who rely on free and reduced‐price meals from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) lose their best source of daily nutrition. About 74% of Mississippi public school students qualify for free or reduced‐price meals; the change could thus negatively …