Anna Wolfe answers reader questions on Mississippi welfare scandal

In July we asked readers what questions they had about the Mississippi welfare scandal. Author of The Backchannel and Mississippi Today’s poverty reporter Anna Wolfe answered five and recapped the scandal.

[natturner]

You are doing great work Anna! !esp it up!

[dankismet]

So proud of you Anna, I'm also from Tacoma Washington, went to Foss High School, but now live in Renton. How the hell did you end up in Mississippi, although they are so blessed to have you expose all this corruption. Both Tate Reeves and Phil Bryant should be in Prison. Hope the FBI gets off their asses and do their job-you have made their jobs so much easier with all the background work you have already done.

[timsmusic]

This lady is an angel. Profiting from poverty has no place in a true democracy. Get ‘em Anna. Let us know if you have a fund where we can contribute to assist in your investigations. Chapters of Mississippi today are needed all over the dang country.

[jesusislord]

No wonder my elderly mother couldn’t get any help

[ellenw]

In a world of Kardashians, thank you for being a Woodward or Bernstein!!! We desperately need more of them!

[dnvdxgp]

What ever happened to the DEQ CEO female that resigned from DEQ under Bryant I think during the BP oil spill? Wasnt there questionable spend under the Former DEQ executive with a contracted female? We never heard more from that?

[dnvdxgp]

Years ago many services provided by these private tax exempt nonprofits were provided by private tax paying small businesses. Once they found that they could convert their services under a nonprofit and fraudulently charge the govt for reimbursements or upfront billing they could make more money. Many nonprofits that are govt funded recipients use the funding for big$ salary overhead and the donations they periodically beg for become supplement to provide the services they are now supposed to use the govt funding for. This has flip flopped! Whereas nonprofits used to depend on donations to support their nonprofit NOW they depend on govt funding to support their nonprofits and supplement with $donations. They too, like the dependent population, have become govt dependent to where now they arrogantly DEMAND the govt funding. The services they are supposed to provide year round are done at the last minute prior to expiration of govt funding to justify there complete existence. We are spending billions BILLIONS on folks to make lucrative salaries to do nothing but a couple of months per year to provide the most minimal services to justify themselves legally and all with our tax dollars! Of course NOW many political campaigns do not depend on the population donations either ....many also depend on govt funding indirectly funneled by govt funded nonprofits back to their campaigns indirectly. If we closed every nonprofit today and ceased all nonprofit govt funding This country's unemployment rate would skyrocket ...it makes you wonder if nonprofit funneling makes the world turn a profit. Are the billions given thru nonprofits invested, increase spending, make us falsy look profitable using govt funding? Hhmm.

[pamelafranklin]

This is so heartbreaking all the money federal money are going to these racist white people pockets

[dermacaredoctor]

During COvid. Will Mississippi build new prisons and tear Parchman down. How long will it take before massive lawsuit hit the Mississippi Courts.

[carmenmcgilvery]

Great reporting 👏 👍 👌 🙌. Keep up the good work for the people!

[philadelphia]

Her statement that Mississippi is conservative is the problem. No economic growth bc of their conservative insight