by MBJ Staff Published: May 17,2013
Tags: home, home price, house, index, mortgage, mortgage technology, real estate, residence, residential real estate, study, survey, technology
OXFORD — The latest FNC Residential Price Index (RPI) shows the U.S. housing market continued to recover, recording in March the 13th consecutive price increase. In recent months, the ongoing housing recovery has maintained its pace with steady and persistent gains in home prices despite signs of continued job market weakness and soft economic growth, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 17,2013
Tags: consumer confidence, economy, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, hiring, optimism, optimistic, pessimism, pessimistic, report, small business, spending, survey, trade association
WASHINGTON — After last month’s disappointing drop in small-business confidence, April’s Index of Small Business Optimism from the National Federation of Independent Business rose 2.6 points to 92.1, just above the recovery average of 90.7. In April’s report, four Index components rose, two fell and six were unchanged. Yet pessimism abounds within the sector, as [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 7,2013
Tags: business owner, confidence, economy, employer, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, executive, report, senior management, small business, survey
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Director of research and policy Scott King and the Gulf Coast Business Council Research Foundation has released the quarterly CEO and Business Owners Confidence Report for the first quarter of 2013. “Confidence in the Gulf Coast’s economy is improving moderately,” said Jack Norris, president of the Gulf Coast Business Council. “This [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 3,2013
Tags: college, education, goods making, higher education, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, postsecondary education, public university, study, survey, university
KENNESAW, Ga. — Manufacturing activity in the Southeast improved slightly on the strength of higher new orders, production and employment, staying ahead of the national index, according to the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report released by the Econometric Center at Kennesaw State University’s Michael J. Coles College of Business. “Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana experienced [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 30,2013
Tags: Coast, college, ecosystem, education, environment, higher education, land, postsecondary education, property, public university, real estate, restoration, study, survey, university, wetlands, wildlife
GULF COAST — A new survey Mississippi State University finds more than 60 percent of Americans are willing to pay to restore Louisiana’s rapidly eroding Barataria-Terrebonne estuary. The Courier reports the survey found that respondents were willing to pay between $909 and $1,751 per household for coastal restoration projects. Added up, that could generate between [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 25,2013
Tags: computer, ecommerce, Internet, online, sales, Sales Tax, shop, shopper, shopping, survey, tax, tax collection
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi lost at least $616.5 million in online sales tax collections during the five-year period from 2007 until 2012, a survey says. Mississippi and other states could soon have the option to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases if the U.S. Senate approves, as expected, the Marketplace Fairness Act, legislation that would [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 31,2013
Tags: consumer confidence, economy, forecast, job, prediction, sales, study, survey, tax, work, worker
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Confidence in the Mississippi Gulf Coast economy held steady in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the CEO and Business Owners Confidence report from the Gulf Coast Business Council. “For the second consecutive survey, business leaders perceive a modestly improving economy,” said Jack Norris, president of the Gulf Coast Business [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 17,2013
Tags: association, club, culture, guide, history, media, publication, study, survey, tourism, tourist, travel, vacation, visitor, war
VICKSBURG — AAA Southern Traveler and AAA Midwest Traveler has named Vicksburg one of the top 13 places to visit in 2013. Other destinations named include Christchurch, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Ireland, Mexico, Orlando, Panama, San Francisco, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Las Vegas. Vicksburg will host a number of Civil War [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 17,2013
Tags: city, employee benefits, funding, health insurance, municipal, municipality, pension, rank, retire, retiree, retirement, shortfall, study, survey
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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 10,2013
Tags: benefits, health, health care, health care reform, health insurance, insurance, insurance exchange, poll, public health, report, study, survey
JACKSON — The Mississippi Health Advocacy Program (MHAP) says a survey has found that 51 percent of Mississippi consumers have positive views of a health insurance exchange and over 62 percent believe that the resulting expansion of private insurance would lead to economic growth. “Mississippi truly has unique challenges when it comes to health care. [...] [...]
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