State's educational attainment inexorably linked to poverty, unemployment

Since we're headed into a courthouse-to-statehouse election year in Mississippi, the political conversation will of course turn to who is responsible for any and every thing that's not to the liking of the state's electorate. Democrats tell us that Mississippi's troubling unemployment numbers are the fault of Republicans in control of the legislative and executive branches of government in Mississippi.

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