![]() "Sharkey County, Mississippi, is one of the poorest counties in the state of Mississippi, but we're still resilient," he said. "And by the time they initiated the siren, the storm had hit and it tore down the siren that's located right over here," Walker said, referring to an area just blocks from downtown. The storm hit so quickly that the sheriff's department in Rolling Forks barely had time to set off sirens to warn the community of 2,000 residents, said Mayor Eldridge Walker. Search and recovery crews resumed the daunting task of digging through flattened and battered homes, commercial buildings and municipal offices after hundreds of people were displaced. Kunze was among volunteers working Sunday at a staging area, where bottled water and other supplies were being readied for distribution. Climate Barometer newsletter: Sign up to keep your finger on the climate pulse."Everything I can see is in some state of destruction," said Jarrod Kunze, who drove to the hard-hit Mississippi town of Rolling Fork from his home in Alabama, ready to help "in whatever capacity I'm needed." ![]() A man was also killed in Alabama after his trailer home flipped over several times. ![]() after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction for more than an hour across a long swath of Mississippi, even as furious new storms Sunday struck across the Deep South.Īt least 25 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Mississippi as the massive storm ripped through more than a half-dozen towns late Friday. It took him about a year to get his current apartment, where he pays $186 per month with the help of a subsidy.Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. He applied for apartments at multiple subsidized housing buildings, but never made it off the wait list. He camped at an old landfill, often eating leftovers from people’s picnics at a nearby park. But a 30-year addiction to meth landed him on the streets from the late 1990s through about 2006. Marshall said he grew up in Sacramento and got a degree in dietic technology and culinary arts. “Even when you have the deposit money and you have some rental subsidy, it’s still very, very challenging to find units - and to find units where the landlords will lease to our clients,” Bennett said. In some cases, people have waited for years to find a place. Kelly Bennett, founder and CEO of Sacramento Covered, said that during California’s first experiment with using Medicaid money for housing services, it would often take up to eight months for workers to place a patient in an apartment. Marshall said keeping his apartment clean is one thing that helped his leg wound to finally heal. But Medicaid paid for his security deposit, bed, sofa, table, chairs and nearly 3 1/2 gallons of Pine Sol. In Marshall’s case, he pays his own rent, using some of the $1,153 per month he gets from Social Security and Supplemental Security Income. While Medicaid did not pay for rent, it paid for things like security deposits and furniture. ![]() “What we’re really doing is expanding the welfare state, which is going to become just a huge financial problem,” said Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, a group that advocates for free-market policies.Ĭalifornia experimented with using Medicaid money for some housing-related expenses in 2016 when it launched a pilot project in 26 counties. Meanwhile the state’s Medicaid spending is projected to increase by $2.5 billion over the next three years, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. California is expected to have a $22.5 billion budget deficit this year, and it could get bigger in years to come.
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