By Christopher Young

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The TANF hearing was led by state Senator Derrick T. Simmons, Senate Minority Leader; and Robert L. Johnson III, House Minority Leader. Speakers included Robert Anderson; executive director of Mississippi Department of Human Services, Elizabeth Lower-Basch; deputy director of Policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy, Carol Burnett; executive director  of Mississippi Low-Income Initiative, Brandy Nichols; Springboard to Opportunities; mother, Deloris Suel, Childcare Center owner and president of the Child Care Directors Network Alliance; and Reverend Reginald Buckley; president of General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi Inc.

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