Mississippi Business Journal » Census Bureau http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 WISEMAN: Where does Mississippi fit with new county census data http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/25/wiseman-where-does-mississippi-fit-with-new-county-census-data/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wiseman-where-does-mississippi-fit-with-new-county-census-data http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/25/wiseman-where-does-mississippi-fit-with-new-county-census-data/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:52:43 +0000 Marty Wiseman http://msbusiness.com/?p=71953 A graduate student managed to ruin my last day of spring break. It all had to do with my last lecture before the break and a Census Bureau report that she forwarded to me and which caused me to reach for my calculator. The story, written by Hope Yen of the Associated Press and appearing [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/25/wiseman-where-does-mississippi-fit-with-new-county-census-data/feed/ 1 Mississippi still atop the list of state’s with most unbanked households http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/23/mississippi-still-atop-the-list-of-states-with-most-unbanked-households/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mississippi-still-atop-the-list-of-states-with-most-unbanked-households http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/23/mississippi-still-atop-the-list-of-states-with-most-unbanked-households/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:01:45 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=62939 Mississippi has retained its distinction as the state with the highest percentage of households without checking accounts or other banking services, a survey released earlier this month by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shows. The survey conducted in 2011 found that 15.1 percent of Mississippi households are “unbanked.” Though the 15.1 percent is higher than [...]

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