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Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) will lose $2 million in federal funding due to cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
CPB, which provides 70% of federal funding to local public media outlets, is shutting down operations.
MPB will lose access to PBS and NPR programming, impacting educational resources for many Mississippi families.
MPB is launching a fundraising campaign to offset the loss of federal funds.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting will lose approximately $2 million in federal funding after President Donald Trump last month signed a law slashing funding for public broadcasting.
The law pulls approximately $1.1 billion in total throughout the nation. Weeks after the bill became law, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a