A House committee passed a bill late Wednesday that would create or expand tax credits aimed at helping care for poor families, mothers and children in wake of Mississippi's ban on abortions.
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today February 15, 2023 A House committee passed a bill late Wednesday that would create or expand eight tax credits aimed at helping care for poor families, mothers and children in wake of Mississippi's ban on abortions. "This is designed to help newly pregnant ladies and struggling families," House Ways and Means Chairman Trey Lamar, R-Senatobia, told members of his committee."...Most are existing that we are expanding, but a couple are new.
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