by Associated Press Published: January 29,2013
Tags: close, Closing, closure, consolidate, consolidation, contraction, employee, employer, employment, job, mail, Post Office, realignment, unemployment, worker
TUPELO — The mail processing center is closing this week in Tupelo, and the workload is being transferred to Memphis. The move is a part of the U.S. Postal Service’s effort to right its business model by consolidating processing centers. USPS spokeswoman Enola Rice tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal no one should notice a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: economy, employee, employer, employment, job, jobless, unemployment, unemployment rate, work, worker
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The state’s unemployment rate ticked up to 8.6 percent in December. Despite the one-month rise, Mississippi’s jobless rate still decreased the third-most among states in 2012, in percentage point terms. Only Nevada and Florida saw larger drops. The state’s unemployment rate was 8.5 percent in November and 10.5 percent rate in December [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 21,2012
Tags: bottle, closure, drink, facility, injection molding, job, llayoff, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, packaging, plant, plastic, polymer, shutdown, unemployed, unemployment, work, worker
JACKSON — Constar International, LLC, a global producer of plastic containers for food and beverages that has previously announced its intention to focus on plastic packaging for technologically advanced and specialty applications, is reducing its presence in the commodity carbonated soft drink (CSD) market. “With a large contract to supply commodity CSD products expiring at [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 21,2012
Tags: employee, employer, employment, job, labor, layoff, unemployed, unemployment, unemployment rate, work, worker
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent in November, the lowest level since February 2009. More people found work even while fewer people were looking, cutting the pool of unemployed people to about 113,000. That’s down 7,000 from October and well below November 2011′s level of 143,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 10,2012
Tags: agriculture, employee, employer, employment, forest, forestry, layoff, lumber, sawmill, shift, timber, tree, unemployment, wood, work, worker
VICKSBURG — Anderson-Tully Company is shutting down a second shift at its Vicksburg sawmill and is laying off 80 employees by Jan. 4. The company tells the Vicksburg Post the move has been in the works for two months because of a depressed housing market. “This is a core business decision to right-size production to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 4,2012
Tags: employee, employer, employment, job, study, unemployment, work, worker, working, young adult
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Young adults in Mississippi were less likely to be employed in 2011 than their peers in other states, according to a national study. A Kids Count report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation said 51 percent of 20- to 24-year-olds in Mississippi had jobs in 2011. That’s the lowest employment rate in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 28,2012
Tags: economist, economy, employee, employer, employment, forecast, growth, job, recession, unemployment, work, worker
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Economists say growth and employment should increase in Mississippi next year, led by an improved housing market and an increase in home construction. “We’re hoping the budding housing recovery will carry us forward.” Greg Daco, an economist with IHS Global Insight, said at a conference held by the College Board in Jackson. [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 8.9 percent in October, down 1.3 percent from September. The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed 4,300 more people were employed in October than September. Mississippi had a 9.2 percent jobless rate in September and a 10.7 percent rate in October 2011. The number [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2012
Tags: Closing, closure, economic development, employee, employer, employment, fund, funding, government, grant, hardware, incentive, job, layoff, refund, repayment, state agency, storage, unemployment, warehouse, warehousing, work, worker
Handy Hardware, a Texas-based hardware store cooperative, plans to close its two-year-old Meridian warehouse on Dec. 31, laying off 109 workers. The Mississippi Business Journal earlier reported the facility was closing after receiving a release from the Office of Mayor in Meridian. Mississippi Development Authority spokesman Dan Turner said the state contributed a $3.6 million [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 2,2012
Tags: confidence, economy, employment, job, optimism, recession, report, study, unemployment, work, worker
Director of research and policy Scott King and the Gulf Coast Business Council Research Foundation have released the quarterly CEO and Business Owners Confidence report for the third quarter 2012. “Business leaders see a modestly improving Gulf Coast economy,” said Jack Norris, president of the Gulf Coast Business Council. “It will be interesting to conduct [...] [...]
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