The State of Mississippi has a few things in common with the State of Idaho, the most immediate similarity is that Mississippi, like Idaho, has hospitals that will no longer deliver babies. From the Clarion Ledger:
A hospital on the Mississippi Gulf Coast will suspend labor and delivery services April 1 because of a shortage of obstetricians, further decreasing health care access in a state that has seen other hospitals shut down birthing centers or intensive care for newborn babies.
Clarion Ledger
Of course, this means that both states, like most other states have persistent and chronic labor shortages and little solutions to combat the problem other than hope that more people will move from one state into their state.
Unfortunately for Mississippi, the state has a declining population growth rate while Idaho has been on an upswing recently.
So in the game of population thrones, Mississippi is losing and Idaho is winning, marginally. Will Mississippi turn it around? Stay tuned, stay profitable and stay solvent…