The last few weeks have been about new routines in our household, as the kids returned to school for the 2025-26 academic year. While they prepared for a new season of sports, music, and friendships, the Treasury team and I prepared to launch into another MPACT enrollment season. For those unfamiliar, MPACT stands for the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition … Read More

Earlier this month, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted: “In 2013, Mississippi scored 49th out of 50 states in 4th grade reading scores. After a decade of reforms … they’re now in the top 10 nationally…. Soon it’ll be our turn to lead the way in Ohio.” Growing up in Mississippi, it was rare to see our state in the … Read More

Earlier this month, President Trump took a historic step, signing an Executive Order to end political discrimination by banks. I am grateful to President Trump for signing and stand with him in the fight to end these un-democratic debanking practices. In recent years, vocal Americans (typically on the conservative side of the spectrum) have lost access to critical banking services … Read More

National Nonprofit Day is quickly approaching on August 17. In anticipation, I’m urging all nonprofit organizations across the state to search for unclaimed money that rightfully belongs to them. There are hundreds of thousands of outstanding funds that have yet to be claimed. Let this day serve as a reminder of how important their missions and services are to our … Read More

It’s hard to believe, but the back-to-school rush is already here. New backpacks. Fresh supplies. New routines. All are due in just a matter of weeks. One routine that often gets overlooked this time of year is saving for your child’s future education. According to the National Skills Coalition, about 84% of jobs in Mississippi require some form of training … Read More

During President Trump’s first term, he vowed to build, create, and grow more things in the U.S.A., saying “Restoring American manufacturing will not only restore our wealth, it will restore our pride in ourselves. It will revitalize our independence, and it will rebuild the bonds of kinship between our communities and our citizens.” In the years since he first outlined … Read More

For the first time in the country, a state’s unclaimed money program is putting America First policies into action – not as a talking point, but as a matter of policy. More specifically, this month, I announced the State Treasury would be requiring all unclaimed money recipients to declare their citizenship before beginning the claims process. For four years, the … Read More

Mississippians are some of the hardest working people I know. Whether you’re raising kids at home, putting in long shifts at the hospital, working the land, or welding on the job site, your dedication and grit are second to none. That’s why, as your State Treasurer, I believe your money should work just as hard as you do. This month, … Read More

Can you imagine reaching into the pocket of an old pair of jeans and finding an $11,000 check? Seems unimaginable, right? But that was essentially what happened to one Okolona resident at my team’s Unclaimed Money Open House this week. To be honest, that wasn’t even the largest amount of unclaimed money we’ve found. A Mississippian once recovered $1.2 million … Read More

President Trump is doing what no other executive has had the backbone to do: he’s taking a sledgehammer to the bloated federal bureaucracy and giving power back to working families – and that includes in education. There is a lot to be said about President Trump’s America First budget bill (often called the “One Big Beautiful Bill”), but today, I … Read More