Good day, bad day: March 23, 2012

The Hunger Games smashes a record, while Mississippi is branded the worst state for women to live — and more winners and losers of today's news cycle

Mississippi wins the unenviable award of worst of all U.S. states for women to live in thanks to low wages and high obesity rates.
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