Federal money makes up a meager portion of public library income in the Magnolia State, but literacy advocates say its erosion puts vulnerable communities in peril.
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A man flips through a magazine at the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, April 6, 2019. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)