Mississippi Business Journal » Greenville Bridge http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MBJ Editorial: Mississippi Delta worse off after eight years of Gov. Barbour http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/13/editorial-mississippi-delta-worse-off-after-eight-years-of-gov-barbour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=editorial-mississippi-delta-worse-off-after-eight-years-of-gov-barbour http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/13/editorial-mississippi-delta-worse-off-after-eight-years-of-gov-barbour/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:38:17 +0000 Ross Reily http://msbusiness.com/?p=45955 The Mississippi Delta continues to flounder as unemployment figures average around 18 percent for the 12 counties between Vicksburg and Memphis. Yet, there have been many jobs announcements in the years of the Barbour administration, but very few have had anything to do with the Mississippi Delta. In this latest barrage of economic development announcements, [...]

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