Basic needs too costly for many
June 17, 2010
More than 236,000 Mississippi households, about one third of the total, struggle to make ends meet.In Hinds County, the rate is virtually identical: 32.1 percent, or 21,900 households. Even before the economic recession, almost a third of state households could not pay for basic needs such as food, transportation, health care, child care and education. Read the full article.