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Mississippi's Welfare Scandal: A $95 Million Betrayal and the Bitter Politics of Recovery

Mississippi has recovered a mere $18,000 in the past year from a massive welfare fraud scandal, bringing the total recovered to just $1.5 million out of $96.3 million stolen from the state's neediest citizens. This is a staggering failure of accountability and a heartbreaking betrayal of public trust that leaves the most vulnerable further impoverished.