In-Depth
Before Mississippi’s TANF Scandal, There Were Plantations and Haley Barbour’s Port Scheme
Then-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million in Hurricane Katrina housing recovery funds away from rebuilding housing for poor Gulf Coast residents and toward improving the state port at Gulfport. That’s vital context for $77-mllion TANF scandal, Ellen Ann Fentress writes.
Ellen Ann Fentress
November 17, 2022
