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Addressing Disparities in Mississippi: A Path to a Brighter Future

Explore Mississippi's population, child poverty rates, wages, unemployment disparities, and household sufficiency challenges by race and education. Gain insights on academic achievement and enrollment statistics in the state. Additional resources provided.

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Addressing Disparities in Mississippi: A Path to a Brighter Future

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  1. Reducing Disparities: Mississippi’s Future Depends on it Mississippi ARC Actively Reaching Communities Fall Conference 2011

  2. OVERVIEW: MS POPULATION AND RACE Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  3. OVERVIEW: MS CHILDREN AND RACE, 2010

  4. CHILD POVERTY RATESMISSISSIPPI 2009

  5. MS WAGES BY DEMOGRAPHIC Source: Economic Policy Institute.

  6. MS & U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT IN RECENT RECESSION Source: Economic Policy Institute. April 2011. “Distressed in Mississippi” Issue Brief #303.

  7. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY RACE, 2009 African American Unemployment Rate White Unemployment Rate Unemployment Rate Source: Mississippi Department of Employment Security. “LMI for Affirmative Action” April 2010.

  8. How much do families need to cover all their basic expenses?Self Sufficiency Wage for Two Adults, a Schoolchild and a PreschoolerHINDS COUNTY, MS 2009 Source: Mississippi Self Sufficiency Standard 2009.

  9. How much do families need to cover all their basic expenses?Self Sufficiency Wage for 1 AdultLEE COUNTY, MS 2009 Source: Mississippi Self Sufficiency Standard 2009.

  10. PORTION OF HOUSEHOLDS BELOW SELF SUFFICIENCYby Race of the Householder Source: Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Mississippi

  11. PORTION OF HOUSEHOLDS BELOW SELF SUFFICIENCYby Parental Status and Race of the Householder Source: Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Mississippi

  12. PORTION OF HOUSEHOLDS BELOW SELF SUFFICIENCYby Educational, Race and Gender Households headed by African American women with a bachelor’s degree are more likely to be below self-sufficiency than households headed by white men with a high school degree Source: Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Mississippi

  13. PORTION OF HOUSEHOLDS BELOW SELF SUFFICIENCYby Educational Attainment of the Householder Source: Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Mississippi

  14. STUDENT RACE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

  15. AT-RISK K-12 DISTRICTS AND CHILD POVERTY Districts Failing or Under Academic Watch Districts where more than 1 in 3 children live in Poverty Source: Mississippi Department of Education & 2005-09 American Community Survey.

  16. ENROLLMENT IN ALL MS COMMUNITY COLLEGE COURSES AND REMEDIAL COURSES, 2007 All Courses Enrollment Remedial Course Enrollment Source: Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. Office of Academic and Student Affairs. 2009.

  17. EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF WORKING-AGE ADULTS BY RACE

  18. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Mississippi Economic Policy Center http://www.mepconline.org MS Self Sufficiency Calculator http://www.mepconline.org/calculator Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet http://mepconline.com/images/admin/pdfs/116_50835_ECD_nb.pdf MS Dept. of Employment Security Labor Market Data http://mdes.ms.gov/Home/LMI/index.html Ed Sivak: esivak@mepconline.org Sarah Welker : swelker@mepconline.org

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