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A tax break was supposed to improve a struggling neighborhood. It hasn’t happened.

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. VICKSBURG, Mississippi — Under President Donald Trump’s plan to pump money into poor neighborhoods across the country, the government gave generous tax breaks to a Mississippi businessman to purchase a Vicksburg, Mississippi, saw mill on […]

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