Mississippi Business Journal » retiree 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 Study: Capital City’s pension plan one of worst in U.S. http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/17/study-capital-citys-pension-plan-one-of-worst-in-u-s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=study-capital-citys-pension-plan-one-of-worst-in-u-s http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/17/study-capital-citys-pension-plan-one-of-worst-in-u-s/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:36:38 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=68313 JACKSON — Sixty-one key cities across America, including Jackson, have emerged from the Great Recession with a gap of more than $217 billion between what they had promised their workers in pensions and retiree health care and what they had saved to pay that bill, according to a report released by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/17/study-capital-citys-pension-plan-one-of-worst-in-u-s/feed/ 0 Ex-USM president and polymer science pioneer quietly retires http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/06/ex-usm-president-and-polymer-science-pioneer-quietly-retires/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-usm-president-and-polymer-science-pioneer-quietly-retires http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/06/ex-usm-president-and-polymer-science-pioneer-quietly-retires/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:52:34 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=59363 HATTIESBURG — Shelby Thames, a pioneer in polymer sciences and a former president of the University of Southern Mississippi, has retired. That’s according to an announcement from the school. Thames founded USM’s research program in polymer science. He was university president for five years, from 2002-2007. The Hattiesburg American reports Thames retired last week with [...]

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