by Nash Nunnery Published: April 17,2011
Tags: poverty, Sugar Ditch Alley, Tunica County, Wilhelm Schulz GBBH manufacturing plant
The memories of Sugar Ditch Alley and the nation’s highest rate of poverty made infamous by a 1960s network television documentary have all but faded in Tunica County. An impoverished neighborhood in the Town of Tunica, Sugar Ditch Alley was so named for the open sewer located there. With the advent of the gaming industry [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: April 18,2010
Tags: GreenTech, Toyota, Tunica County, Xiaolin “Charles” Wang
Almost exactly six months ago, Tunica County was the site of one of the most bizarre economic development announcements in recent Mississippi history. Xiaolin “Charles” Wang, a Chinese businessman, donned a hard hat and said he planned to build in Tunica a $1-billion hybrid vehicle manufacturing facility that would produce 1,500 vehicles a year and [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: November 16,2009
Tags: Mississippi, Tunica County, unemployment
As two major developments are on back burner, Tunica County’s unemployment rate sits at 13 percent Mississippi’s unemployment rate has, for the past 12 months, averaged 8.9 percent. Aside from plunging tax revenue that is forcing lawmakers to make some uncomfortable decisions with the state’s budget, the unemployment rate is the starkest indicator that the effects [...] [...]
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