State’s economic indicators up but not net job growth
by Ted Carter
Published: May 13,2012
Tags: community block development grants, Deepwater Horizon drill, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning, state economy
State economists say Mississippi is showing some spring in its step but concede there’s no increase of people walking into new jobs. They attribute the bouncy step to six consecutive months of increases in two key measures of economic health: The index of leading indicators and the index of coincident indicators. What’s more, the probability [...]
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