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Today at Ms. | September 6, 2022
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Members of the Mississippi National Guard hand out bottled water at Thomas Cardozo Middle School in response to the water crisis on Sept. 1, 2022 in Jackson. The city has been experiencing days without reliable water service after river flooding caused the main treatment facility to fail. (Brad Vest / Getty Images)
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BY SARAH STRIPP | The failure of Jackson's water system is the product of years of neglect and systematic disinvestment from a majority Black city, but it is also emblematic of the larger disregard and negligence that leaders have shown towards all residents in Mississippi.
The state had the opportunity, particularly during the pandemic with additional sources and types of funding, to build a new and more robust social safety net system that centered the needs of families and would have prevented the same emergency situations we saw play out during the pandemic and past water system failures. But instead, favoring income tax cuts and pay raises for elected officials, state legislators cut it up so much that when families found themselves knocked off the edge by a crisis, they have been left in a freefall.
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BY ROXY SZAL | The Biden administration announced it would cancel significant amounts of student debt for millions of Americans, marking the largest discharge of education debt in U.S. history. Under the new plan, individual student loan borrowers earning under $125,000 per year (or $250,000 for households) qualify for up to $10,000 in loan forgiveness. Recipients of Pell Grants are eligible for an additional $10,000 in forgiveness.
Student loan debtors are disproportionately women, who hold about two-thirds of student loan debt—yet earn just 74 percent of what men graduates earn. Black students are also disproportionately plagued by student loan debt: More than 70 percent of Black students go into debt, compared to 56 percent of white students.
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BY JESSICA NEUWIRTH | After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, war crimes fill the news, political dialogue seems hopeless and 7 million refugees—at least 90 percent of whom are women and children—have fled across the borders into Europe.
Still, resistance blossoms in Ukraine from a generation that’s enjoyed relative freedom and democracy. The way forward in Ukraine—and elsewhere—is through people power.
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