State’s economic indicators up but not net job growth
by Ted Carter Published: May 13,2012
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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 [...] [...]
